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 agoI 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 actor
nutomic@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
This would make instance creation too complicated.
rglullis@communick.news 6 days 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.