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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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That's true, and in addition it could even be confusing whether support@lemmy.world refers to a community or a user!
I think for ideal clarity using !community@instance.adress and @user@instance.adress would be best to differentiate from e-mail addresses. Though that would tag users for mention notifications more often I guess.
I feel like it should be community#instance.domain. The @ is already internet common for email addresses. It should be avoided to reference communities.
Sadly # is reserved URL particle for page anchors i.e. to refer to an HTML element by its ID.
I would maybe say that c/community@instance.com and u/user@instance.com could be better. / is not legal character on email address, but so is of course ! in the front. c/ and u/ would make sense because that is the actual url that is fetched (c/community@instance.com is located in https://instance.com/c/community), so in code just combining these two paths together would generate the actual URL. Also external communities are handled by https://homeinstance/c/community@instance.com, so it would make sense here also, because c/ is already part of the path.
Of course changing it at this point in time of the life cycle is probably a no-go.
Sure about that "not a legal email character" part?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Local-part
Ok, it seems that I was wrong, standard seems to allow it. So both ! and / are allowed in email
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !community@instance.com
but these solutions would not have saved my clumsy ass in the original case.
If instance would have been fictional furryporn.com and community is called worldnews, and I sent to my grandmother a message containing community url !worldnews@furryporn.com, it would not really matter is it in form of c/worldnews@furryporn.com or with !