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what happens when user and community have the same name (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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From mastodon to follow an account or a community on lemmy you use the @name@server format and there is no difference between a community name and a user-name

so i was wondering if anyone tried and checked what happened

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We can try it out since there is both @[email protected] and [email protected]

When I searched for [email protected] on Mastodon (specifically masto.ai), I got the community, not the user. Not sure why, but that's what I got.