Is there an equivalent to doing /u/user in The Bad Place, to notify and summon someone?
If I type your full username, this happens:
Far as I understand, there isn’t a way to do that. Federated usernames work essentially like an email address because of the decentralized nature of the service. If I type @sparky@lemmy.federate.cc it won’t send you a notification, but it will link your profile.
At least I think that’s how it works. Who wants to jump in and point out all the ways I’m wrong?
Not saying you are wrong, since it is currently imposible to do here, but I don’t think the federated nature of usernames has anything yo do with if they receive a notification or bot since over at mastodon you can tag people properly and they are notified.
This is worth making a suggestion for on github. the fediverse supports it, but its not implemented in lemmy, yet
Short answer: No.
tl;dr answer: There’s no tagging function in place unless you manually tag them using markdown, and that still wouldn’t notify them. That would be a bandaid solution at best.
I might be misunderstanding something, but you are talking about a tag (same as a private note over mastodon or a profile note in discord)
At least it looks that way because of this
Add the ability to tag users, so a title i give him will be next to his name.
What this user is asking is if you can write someone’s name on a post and for that petson to receive a notification that they have been mentioned.
Which is strange because there seems to be support for notifications of a mention? Jerboa even has a section for it, but no one has mentioned me yet so I don’t know if it works.
Bummer.
