Mobile apps may do it differently, but Lemmy-UI doesn't do it, and the Lemmy backend won't notify people with a plain mention without an embedded link.

If you want to ping them you have to do it as a link like this @Dasus@lemmy.world Just @ing their username doesn't work yet. You'll also have to do it as a new comment since edits won't notify them.

Come Mr Taliban, tally me banana.

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Wouldn't you lose the fur from your ears and tail though>

They mean those cute fuzzy ears like what catgirls have

Yes I know catboys have them too, and that there are ones of the NonBinary variety (I'm one of those).

Would probably be like a sphinx cat or those hairless dogs.

I choose 1, 4, 8.

1 and 8 helps with my species dysphoria and 4 is $20, can't pass up 20 bucks man.

I also don't really see the benefit of the others to me.

Sounds like you want a Distributed/Decentralized service like Nostr instead of a Federated service like Lemmy, you should join there instead, I'm sure you'd be right at home there.