gylotip@lemmy.ml to Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoWhy do communities start with an exclamation mark instead of a hashtag?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhy do communities start with an exclamation mark instead of a hashtag?gylotip@lemmy.ml to Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKNova@links.dartboard.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoI think it has more to do with the federated nature of the platform. If you are ingesting content from Mastodon for example, # is a hashtag in a post, and you can tag someone with their username with the @ symbol. Edit: you can tag people here with @ too - such as @knova@knova@dartboard.social So that leaves a new symbol for community linking
minus-squaregylotip@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoA hashtag for community seems much better than an exclamation mark.
minus-squaregylotip@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoBut you didn’t say why Lemmy does not use hashtags for communities.
minus-squareKNova@links.dartboard.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI explained that hashtags use the pound symbol already, and usernames use the @ symbol. Communities needed their own symbol.
I think it has more to do with the federated nature of the platform. If you are ingesting content from Mastodon for example, # is a hashtag in a post, and you can tag someone with their username with the @ symbol.
Edit: you can tag people here with @ too - such as @knova@knova@dartboard.social
So that leaves a new symbol for community linking
A hashtag for community seems much better than an exclamation mark.
You already said that
But you didn’t say why Lemmy does not use hashtags for communities.
I explained that hashtags use the pound symbol already, and usernames use the @ symbol. Communities needed their own symbol.