Correct. It’s intentional to keep users and communities unique since webfinger, the identification protocol used by AP, is understood to refer to one user at a time (although it doesn’t preclude it from sending multiple, which it does in the case of Lemmy.)
Lemmy will prioritize users over communities, which means you can essentially render a community unfindable if you make a user account of the same name. Oops!
Correct. It’s intentional to keep users and communities unique since webfinger, the identification protocol used by AP, is understood to refer to one user at a time (although it doesn’t preclude it from sending multiple, which it does in the case of Lemmy.)
Lemmy will prioritize users over communities, which means you can essentially render a community unfindable if you make a user account of the same name. Oops!
Or maybe it’s the other way around, I forget.