We’re on the fediverse, get used to there being differences like this. Especially if you’re on an instance which portrays everything the same.
In this case, you’re looking at a microblog post and its replies, not a thread. It’s still posted in a community, because the user uses Mbin which does still require posts made from it to be associated with a community, and that’s why Lemmy displays it as a regular thread. But it’s not.
Since OP uses Mbin, which supports both, this being a microblog post specifically suggests their target audience is Mastodon, and they expected to get replies from Mastodon here. On Mastodon, explicit mentions are essential, as that’s how Mastodon decides whom to notify. The replied to user doesn’t get notified unless they are also mentioned in the post.
Mbin’s default behavior doesn’t help here, as it doesn’t show a user’s instance (so you have to click through to people’s profile to see their software, which OP probably doesn’t do, I don’t either), and includes the mentions by default for microblog replies (so removing them is more work than leaving them be).
This is the fediverse, I recommend finding peace with the fact you’ll run into different customs here.
OP created a microblog post, which means Mastodon is the target audience, not Lemmy. For Mastodon, it’s essential to include mentions, even to the person you’re replying to, because otherwise Mastodon won’t notify the user of the reply.
Since Mastodon is the target audience here, OP probably also expected replies to come from that side of the fediverse, not the threadiverse. Their instance by default doesn’t display your instance’s name next to your name, nor does it display your software there. So they probably weren’t aware the user they were replying to used Lemmy. Hence the mention.
@[email protected] is this not the right forum ??
No it is not. This has nothing to do with programming.
Programming is writing in a programming language so the computer can execute it.
This post mentions no programming language, nor any set of programming languages. It isn’t either something that applies to all languages.
In short, it has nothing to do with programming
@[email protected] thank you very much for explaining it. Could you tell me which forums would be more suitable for my general questions ??
@[email protected]
In my opinion, this question makes no sense so it belongs nowhere.
But for it to be on topic, it would need to go in a general technology or OS community.
Hey @[email protected] it comes off as aggressively confrontational to reply to someone and @mention them at the same time.
Microblog clients, which may expect mastodon like interfaces, do this by default.
I see nothing wrong with it personally /shrug
No, it doesn’t.
It might feel “aggressively confrontational” to you, but I find your weird tone policing to be “aggressively confrontational”.
We’re on the fediverse, get used to there being differences like this. Especially if you’re on an instance which portrays everything the same.
In this case, you’re looking at a microblog post and its replies, not a thread. It’s still posted in a community, because the user uses Mbin which does still require posts made from it to be associated with a community, and that’s why Lemmy displays it as a regular thread. But it’s not.
Since OP uses Mbin, which supports both, this being a microblog post specifically suggests their target audience is Mastodon, and they expected to get replies from Mastodon here. On Mastodon, explicit mentions are essential, as that’s how Mastodon decides whom to notify. The replied to user doesn’t get notified unless they are also mentioned in the post.
Mbin’s default behavior doesn’t help here, as it doesn’t show a user’s instance (so you have to click through to people’s profile to see their software, which OP probably doesn’t do, I don’t either), and includes the mentions by default for microblog replies (so removing them is more work than leaving them be).
This is the fediverse, I recommend finding peace with the fact you’ll run into different customs here.
OP created a microblog post, which means Mastodon is the target audience, not Lemmy. For Mastodon, it’s essential to include mentions, even to the person you’re replying to, because otherwise Mastodon won’t notify the user of the reply.
Since Mastodon is the target audience here, OP probably also expected replies to come from that side of the fediverse, not the threadiverse. Their instance by default doesn’t display your instance’s name next to your name, nor does it display your software there. So they probably weren’t aware the user they were replying to used Lemmy. Hence the mention.