• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    9 months ago

    Nevermind “it looks wrong”, it works less well! Using !comm@instance, you can directly go to a comm and subscribe to it or block it (plus it’s automatically displayed in dark mode if that’s your preference), which is quite a bit harder to do with a /u/comm@instance link.

    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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      9 months ago

      Even the Lemmy devs used to get it wrong, there was multiple times way back in the past where they’d link something and a bot would reply that they’re doing it wrong.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, I basically stopped tagging stuff because I never got used to the formatting.

      And also because I never remember which instance it’s on.

  • Not a newt@piefed.ca
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    9 months ago

    Missed an opportunity to use IAM style principals, e.g. user:[name]@[instance] and comm:[name]@[instance].

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        9 months ago

        This is my brain liking self-documenting strings, instead of having to remember which symbol means what. I’m using a communications platform, not playing nethack.