Is there an equivalent to doing /u/user in The Bad Place, to notify and summon someone?

  • FiskFisk33@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is worth making a suggestion for on github. the fediverse supports it, but its not implemented in lemmy, yet

  • Sean@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Far as I understand, there isn’t a way to do that. Federated usernames work essentially like an email address because of the decentralized nature of the service. If I type @sparky@lemmy.federate.cc it won’t send you a notification, but it will link your profile.

    At least I think that’s how it works. Who wants to jump in and point out all the ways I’m wrong?

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      Not saying you are wrong, since it is currently imposible to do here, but I don’t think the federated nature of usernames has anything yo do with if they receive a notification or bot since over at mastodon you can tag people properly and they are notified.

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        1 year ago

        Fair point and now that I think about it that seems odd to me since both services can communicate with each other.

  • Alex@geddit.social
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    1 year ago

    Short answer: No.

    tl;dr answer: There’s no tagging function in place unless you manually tag them using markdown, and that still wouldn’t notify them. That would be a bandaid solution at best.

    • Elkaki123@vlemmy.net
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      1 year ago

      I might be misunderstanding something, but you are talking about a tag (same as a private note over mastodon or a profile note in discord)

      At least it looks that way because of this

      Add the ability to tag users, so a title i give him will be next to his name.

      What this user is asking is if you can write someone’s name on a post and for that petson to receive a notification that they have been mentioned.

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        1 year ago

        I completely understand what was said - that is not the problem. I’m well aware.

        The problem is that I misread the issue I linked to.

        My comment has since been edited.

    • CataclysmZA@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Which is strange because there seems to be support for notifications of a mention? Jerboa even has a section for it, but no one has mentioned me yet so I don’t know if it works.

      • Alex@geddit.social
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        1 year ago

        it works if you comment.

        like this - now it shows up in your notifs.

        there’s no actual tagging function, though.

  • malloc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you go to https://lemmy.world/inbox

    It will show an option for your “Mentions” which you can do by using the “@user@instance.tld” format (ie, @malloc@lemmy.world)

    But my personal “Mentions” inbox just shows nothing (I have been mentioned before by other users but only noticed it while browsing this instance and not via inbox).

    The official site (https://join-lemmy.org) mentions the following:

    User tagging using @, Community tagging using !.

    References to mentions in official docs: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/05-federation.html?highlight=Mention#create-or-update-comment