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Why do communities start with an exclamation mark instead of a hashtag? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, !lemmy starts with an !, but why not start with a # symbol?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, but how does a hashtag work? Can you give an example of a hashtagged word where Lemmy uses a hashtag?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

#hashtags don’t automatically work on Lemmy, but if I cross post this comment to another federated service (mastodon etc.) the hashtags should work there. #lemmy @knova@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, we have:

# for tagging something
@ for usernames
! for communities

But does a question mark have any purpose here?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not that I’m aware.