Haggunenons@lemmy.world to Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoWhy do some communities have @[INSTANCE NAME] and some are just their names?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1message-squareWhy do some communities have @[INSTANCE NAME] and some are just their names?Haggunenons@lemmy.world to Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareirdc@derp.foolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoThey’ve set a separate display name that’s show instead of the name that also appears in the URL.
minus-squareHaggunenons@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoCan community display names be reused then, multiple communities choose to have the same display name? Is this the case with users too, anyone can set their display name to anything?
minus-squarejsveiga@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoYes and yes. You can have multiple communities with the same name in different instances, and not necessarily about the same subject. You can also have not only the same display name as multiple other users, but even the same username, if not in the same instance.
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s like email addresses - you can have blabla@gmail.com and I can have blabla@yahoo.com.
They’ve set a separate display name that’s show instead of the name that also appears in the URL.
Can community display names be reused then, multiple communities choose to have the same display name?
Is this the case with users too, anyone can set their display name to anything?
Yes and yes.
You can have multiple communities with the same name in different instances, and not necessarily about the same subject.
You can also have not only the same display name as multiple other users, but even the same username, if not in the same instance.
Interesting, thanks.
It’s like email addresses - you can have blabla@gmail.com and I can have blabla@yahoo.com.