Honestly a message like this should be stickied in that community
The UI is too confusing imo. Displaying the free form text title if the community name instead of the c/... Actual value is bad
I think this is something that will make more sense with time; Even new R is confusing when compared to old R.
I've never really even tried to use the new UI
What is the ! community? Is that some sort of lemmy specific magic name?
@yads @clueless_stoner The ! Has never worked for me. Just the @name@whateverinstanceis works for me
The ! is Lemmy language for "group, not user". But it only works in Lemmy, which is probably why kbin is not following suit.
How you distinguish between users and groups in kbin I have no idea, but whatever it is I guess it's supposed to work in Mastodon as well.
@sab @clueless_stoner @yads Yea when the blackout started I didn't know what I was doing. Created a username on lemmy.world and some subs. Found about mastodon created an account there and didn't realize I only needed one Lol. I use the lemmy username for upvoting and my subs but I use Mastodon for everything else. Comments, replies etc.. I like the local and fedeversetabs on Mastodon. I guess everyone got there own niche.
I also created accounts on both lemmy.world and mastodon. I know I can view mastodon content in the lemmy app (jeroba) and vice versa. Are you saying I can login to the mastodon app with my lemmy.world credentials? My (possibly wrong) impression is that the "style" of content on each is sufficiently different to warrant different accounts & apps.
@UniversalFlamingo I think you have to login to your instance with the server you made then you can interact with everyone. Example my mastodon I can login via mastodon and interact with all lemmy people. If I have a lemmy account I login through lemmy and can chat, comment on mastodon people
Mastodon doesn't natively support groups so we just use another protocol (such as chirp.social) so we know by seeing the domain name.
I've only used it that way so that it wouldn't be confused with the general platform :) the community names on Lemmy are registered as !communityname
I've never posted in the community, and I've been wondering what the hell is the actual topic in it. I've been assuming the whole time it's for news related to the instance, but I see all kinds of stuff there. Almost as if it's a general chat room. Glad to see I'm not the only one confused by all of the excess/off-topic activity.
You should know, before you were here. The number of communities and way they were used were different, and posting mostly to one spot was the only thing that made sense. Everything else was dead. Momentum continued on the same trajectory, it wasn't a mistake or a choice really. There were only a couple hundred active users when I got here.
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