I wanted to tag SDF today. A came up, but it seems to refer to something(s) different. I also saw a .
Is there a tag that’s sort of “standard” to refer to SDF? Standard in the sense that it’s typically used by SDF members [Edit:] Mastodon users interested in SDF.
Thank you! What you wrote confused me at first, I thought that using
@somethingcreated a post that was only visible to usersomething– like a direct message. Now I’ve re-read the help pages, and I see that there’s a second “@” at the bottom of the post field, to make the post only visible tosomething; otherwise (globe icon) is public.May I ask: in this latter case, what does
@somethingachieve then? is it a sort of “user mention”, so the user is notified to have been mentioned in a public post? Will other users interested insomethingsee it then?[Edit: I realize that my question was phrased in a completely misleading way. Corrected now.]
Cheers!
No worries. The Fediverse is a complicated beast 🙂. My understanding is that the @ symbol is a way of directly responding to that person and can also be used by others who see the post to actually identify that person. So say you have 20 followers - when you create a post all of your followers would see it and the person you contacted with the @ symbol.
But if you’re wanting to mention that person or bring more attention to them for a wider audience, then you would need to use # with words that are closely associated with said person.
For example, you could create a post to mention SDF as so: “If you’re interested in #retrotech and #Unix like systems, then I would recommend checking out @SDF.”
In this example, you would want to use relevant hashtags to reach a wider audience, and you’d want to tag the correct person with the @ symbol so people could connect with them.
At least, that’s how I would go about it. Hope this helps.
Thank you for the neat examples! :) I think I get it now.
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