Community Syntax

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.

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Whenever I click links on Jerboa it either thinks they are email addresses, redirects to the Jerboa homescreen, or else it opens the link in my web browser. It really needs to improve the way it handles links that are linking to another part of Lemmy
On mastodon the ! For communities is actually replaced with @ for them to. So when searching for a community from mastodon its @ communityname @ server