Comment on If a Lemmy user has the same name as a community, how can I tag the community on Mastodon?
rglullis@communick.news 1 week agoThat might work, but it’s never a good idea to write your code against a specific implementation. Plus, it seems that in this case the Lemmy devs shot themselves in the foot: why allow to create two different types of actors with the same name?!
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 week ago
I agree. Users shouldn’t be allowed to choose a name that already exists as a community. But it would be a shame if communities could not be created because a user with that name already exists.
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
I think this is yet-another reason to have a separation between users and communities at the instance/domain level.
Setting up a server should require one top-level domain and two subdomains:
https://myserver.com/would be for webfinger and the actual backend.https://groups.myserver.com/would be the subdomain for the AS2.Group actorshttps://people.myserver.com/would be the subdomain for the AS2.Person actornutomic@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
This would make instance creation too complicated.
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
It could be an optional feature.
By default, users and communities share the namespace so they can not have the same name. But if you as an admin want to let users and communities with the handle, then you need to add two CNAMEs that point to the same domain of the backend, and add these to lemmy.hjson, so that the backend can know how to generate actor ids.