@gylotip@lemmy.ml to Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoWhy do communities start with an exclamation mark instead of a hashtag?message-square26fedilinkarrow-up19file-text
arrow-up19message-squareWhy do communities start with an exclamation mark instead of a hashtag?@gylotip@lemmy.ml to Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKNovalinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoI explained that hashtags use the pound symbol already, and usernames use the @ symbol. Communities needed their own symbol.
minus-square@gylotip@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoOkay, but how does a hashtag work? Can you give an example of a hashtagged word where Lemmy uses a hashtag?
minus-squareKNovalinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year ago#hashtags don’t automatically work on Lemmy, but if I cross post this comment to another federated service (mastodon etc.) the hashtags should work there. #lemmy @knova@knova@dartboard.social
minus-square@gylotip@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoOkay, we have: # for tagging something @ for usernames ! for communities But does a question mark have any purpose here?
I explained that hashtags use the pound symbol already, and usernames use the @ symbol. Communities needed their own symbol.
Okay, but how does a hashtag work? Can you give an example of a hashtagged word where Lemmy uses a hashtag?
#hashtags don’t automatically work on Lemmy, but if I cross post this comment to another federated service (mastodon etc.) the hashtags should work there. #lemmy @knova@knova@dartboard.social
Okay, we have:
#for tagging something@for usernames!for communitiesBut does a question mark have any purpose here?
Not that I’m aware.