Lemmy compatibility enhancements · GitHub Issue #17008 · mastodon/mastodon (November 2021)

github.com Lemmy compatibility enhancements · Issue #17008 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Recently the lemmy devs added a mastodon-federation-compatibility feature, but there are some quirks: User <-> community ambiguity Lemmy allows users and communities to have the same name, so...

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Interesting to note that Lemmy breaks federation conventions for identity in that a community is supposed to be something you can message to. And Lemmy allows usernames to be addresses equal to community. So Lemmy can have [email protected] as both a user and a group.

I come from email background in late 1980's onward, and basically unified namespace is how a mailing list worked, a 'community' would be like a mailing list address, equal in address convention as a user mailbox.