Anyone know why the devs went with the exclamation point for communities, instead of the hashtag/pound sign?

@ is usually for users, # for grouping, IRC rooms, and other platforms ‘channels’

Just an odd choice in my opinion, probably too late to change now.

  • On mastodon the ! For communities is actually replaced with @ for them to. So when searching for a community from mastodon its @ communityname @ server