On Reddit, it’s possible to tag a user bij adding a u/ before the username of some account.

Is that possible on Lemmy?

Edit: thanks everybody! These worked.

  • PreciousDeclaration@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought I had seen on other comments where users had just used the @ symbol before the username. See if this works. @UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl

    • UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Could be, but I can’t check because you’re also commenting on my OP. Could you retry commenting on another comment not written by me?

      Never mind: the mention worked.

    • TWeaK@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s not @, you want to use /u/, eg /u/user@their_instance. This creates an instance agnostic link where the viewer sees the user in their own instance, where they’re logged in, so they can message you. When you hover over it says https://your_instance/u/user@their_instance. The source of the comment has no link structure, the viewer’s instance creates the link, so long as it’s on version 0.18 or newer.

      The confusion is that when you start typing you get a popup window where you can select the username. However this creates a direct link with text @user@their_instance but the link is https://their_instance/u/user. When you view source you see a full link created as [@user@their_instance](https://their_instance/u/user).

      Hopefully in a future version they’ll fix the drop down box to create agnostic links. It seems like they overlooked that in the 0.18 update.

      • PreciousDeclaration@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I appreciate you taking the time to explain all this, I guess there must be different ways of doing this, but your comment has confused me a little bit, maybe it’s just a little too early in the morning here for me. I’ll read it again later, and maybe get a better understanding. Although, I’m not sure what drop down box/popup window you’re referring to. I’m not using the web browser, I’m using the Jerboa app, so I didn’t get a drop down box or popup window when I started typing.
        The OP just asked about how to tag a user, and using the @ symbol worked, the OP got their mention notification.

        • TWeaK@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          The OP just asked about how to tag a user, and using the @ symbol worked, the OP got their mention notification.

          Yeah I kind of realised after my 4th or 5th comment what OP was actually talking about lol. In any case, the link functions are still in need of some development - I’m not sure that the agnostic links give mentions, meanwhile the @ link should also be agnostic. Hopefully they’ll also make the @ link auto-generate, without having to fully type out a manual link code.