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Why do communities start with an exclamation mark instead of a hashtag? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by gylotip@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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For example, !lemmy starts with an !, but why not start with a # symbol?

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[–] Datsourdo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I'm on kbin, and to sub to a community on a lemmy instance, I have to replace the ! with a @, because that's the actual underlying name, it seems. It's a bit confusing.