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[Bug]: Cannot distinguish between the user and the community if the usernames are the same #5052
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This was previously discussed in #2037. Basically Lemmy stores users and communities in different database tables (namespaces), so there is no problem having a user and community with the same name. The only possible solution would be to prevent community creation if a user with that name already exists (and vice versa). |
Is there any possibility to provide additional solutions to distinguish between the user and the community even in ActivityPub implementations such as Misskey and Mastodon which cannot distinguish between those? |
No. However, the problem is that Mastodon is an ergonomically perfect software, but architecturally it is crap... Mastodon, Pleroma and Misskey are not able to distinguish between a normal user and a group user and this is ridiculous! But if, instead of Mastodon, you used Friendica you would not have this problem and you would only have to search for the complete handle of the Lemmy community (https://lemmy.ml/c/linux), to find it, follow it and manage that user as an Activitypub group.... This is why you should stop using Mastodon... :-) |
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Summary
I tried to search https://lemmy.ml/c/linux from Misskey to follow this community but couldn't. Unlike this, https://lemmy.ml/c/opensource was able to search successfully. The difference between these is that the former has a user with the same name as the community.
I tried searching
!linux@lemmy.ml
in https://misskey.io/ and https://mastodon.social/ (using https://lemmy.ml/c/linux,!linux@lemmy.ml
and@linux@lemmy.ml
), both returned only the user (@linux@lemmy.ml
) as a search result, and sometimes the search failed (depending on the syntax).misskey-dev/misskey#14614 (comment) states:
I think that other ActivityPub implementations such as Mastodon, PeerTube, and Pixelfed, may also be unable to distinguish between the user and the community in such cases.
Steps to Reproduce
Technical Details
See above
Version
BE: 0.19.6-beta1
Lemmy Instance URL
lemmy.ml
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