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How does one tag another user in a comment? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On Reddit, it's possible to tag a user bij adding a u/ before the username of some account.

Is that possible on Lemmy?

Edit: thanks everybody! These worked.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know I've comment-vomited all over this thread, but I just want to comment once more so that OP gets it:

The best form is /u/user@their_instance. This creates an instance agnostic link of the form https://your_instance/u/user@their_instance, eg /u/[email protected], which you will see as https://feddit.nl/u/[email protected]. This keeps the viewer in the instance they're logged into, so they can actually interact eg send a message.

Typing @user@their_instance on its own doesn't create a link. If you start typing @user then you'll get a dropdown box, however when you select that it creates a direct link in the form https://their_instance/u/user, which takes you to their instance, which you might not be logged into.

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

OK, interesting. There are multiple ways apparently.

If you start typing @user then you'll get a dropdown box,

If one uses the web-interface. But who uses the web-interface. It's slow and clunky. A client is much faster.

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

Depends on your instance. Over at lemm.ee, the web version is arguably better than Jerboa, for example. However our lead admin sets things up just so, and includes various mods he made and pushes into the main code stack.

Also, I'm not sure if the instance agnostic links give you a mention. The devs really need to tie all this together, with mentions for the agnostic links, and auto-generated links with @user@instance so you don't have to type out the full link code.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Plot twist: Both your client and the website use web interfaces. The difference is the client uses Electron Chrome instead of Firefox/chrome browser.