What’s the deal with people putting the lemmy @user in their comments when they’re replying to that person? I see AJ doing it, and elsewhere on lemmy it seems everyone is doing it.
It’s because you can access Lemmy from other fediverse sites, like Mastodon. Iirc, Mastodon is like Twitter, so when replying to a thread or comment, the reply will @ the users they are responding to
I suspect that everything still works if if you remove the @ list.
It’s a manual step though so even if it does work, it probably won’t happen much: people have to know about it, remember it, AND ALSO be bothered to do it.
What’s the deal with people putting the lemmy @user in their comments when they’re replying to that person? I see AJ doing it, and elsewhere on lemmy it seems everyone is doing it.
It’s because you can access Lemmy from other fediverse sites, like Mastodon. Iirc, Mastodon is like Twitter, so when replying to a thread or comment, the reply will @ the users they are responding to
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@Baku @dumblederp
Replying from Mastodon here. Sorry to be annoying, I like Federation 😊
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@Baku yeah it is a bit weird and disjointed but I just like the fact that I *can* do it, even if it is sub-optimal.
I suspect that everything still works if if you remove the @ list.
It’s a manual step though so even if it does work, it probably won’t happen much: people have to know about it, remember it, AND ALSO be bothered to do it.
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I can confirm that if a Mastodon user *does* want to play nice with replying, there is a way and it’s not that hard.
I cleared out the automatic @ things from my reply before I started typing these messages and everything seems hunky-dory.
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