I’m trying to contact a user on lemmy, but can’t dm them (it’s not clear to me if this is a bug or if dms don’t work across instances or software, but either way it’s not working). My next workaround would be to ping them in a microblog post, but lemmy doesn’t have a microblog section. Would a lemmy user receive a notification about and be able to view a kbin microblog post in which they’re mentioned?

    • e0qdk@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I think they’re specifically wondering if using @<username>@<instance> mention syntax will result in a notification popping up for the user on Lemmy.

      I’ve been wondering that too (in the context of threads though) – and if it does work, are there limitations regarding visibility between instances that people should be aware of. e.g. what happens if I @ someone in a post to a community on a lemmy server that is defederated from their home instance? Or, in a community that no one on their home server has subscribed to? Will they still get a notice?

      I guess I don’t really have a good mental model for how @ works on the Fediverse.

      • ernest@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I will verify it thoroughly tomorrow, and if there is any issue on the /kbin side, I will have some free time to fix it. I’m almost certain that it used to work correctly in the past.

    • ghostatnoon@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      Good to know that microblog posts show up on lemmy, although it’s a bit awkward that (if I’m seeing that correctly) they show up as regular threads there. I might mention them in a thread that’s not as closely directed to them instead. Thanks for the reply. :)