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Why do communities start with an exclamation mark instead of a hashtag? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by gylotip@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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For example, !lemmy starts with an !, but why not start with a # symbol?

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[–] knighthawk0811@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

probably because a hashtag is already a thing that means something else in other apps. making hashtag mean a community here would give it 2 meaning depending on the app and that's not user friendly cause people will make mistakes if they move between apps.

therefore a new character was chosen for communities to avoid such confusion