<![CDATA[I'm not able to create a community with the same name as my user.]]>This post did not contain any content.]]>https://fedi.wiki/topic/c481c4a2-3319-442d-a5c2-4987b6de3b2b/i-m-not-able-to-create-a-community-with-the-same-name-as-my-user.RSS for NodeSun, 26 Jul 2026 02:08:36 GMTFri, 05 Jun 2026 19:25:37 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not able to create a community with the same name as my user. on Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:55:55 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1998https://fedi.wiki/post/https://activitypub.space/post/1998Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:55:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not able to create a community with the same name as my user. on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:24:44 GMT]]>That's likely intentional. Lemmy does allow a user and a community to share a name and it causes nothing but issues for other fediware like mastodon for example, because they aren't equipped for multiple actors to have the same name

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://feddit.org/comment/13350983https://fedi.wiki/post/https://feddit.org/comment/13350983Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:24:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm not able to create a community with the same name as my user. on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:30:24 GMT]]>Looking at OP's post history over the last 24 hours, maybe that bug should be upgraded to a feature.

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