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Ah, thanks. I’ve edited my comment to correct it.

It’s indeed just the Mastodon-style Mentions that MBIN uses that cause a slight problem for PieFed. Nothing is being regex’d, so it’s just the specific use of the Mention type in the tag[] field which it’s picking up, which - as you say - wasn’t included in your comment.

I’ve no doubt that Lemmy’s particular auto-completion feature is very useful, but I still don’t think it’s what OP was referring to. The top-right frame says “I can find the exact unfederated remote comm” … the key word being ‘unfederated’.

On a lemmy instance that’s already connected with something like ‘yepowertrippinbastards’, starting to type it in a comment will indeed fill out the rest. Image from lemmy.world:

But if a lemmy instance hasn’t already connected with the community, it doesn’t have the info to autocomplete anything. Image from a dev Lemmy instance:

This is in contrast to PieFed, which for one particular screen, can autocomplete community names based on info from lemmyverse rather than its own database, so it doesn’t need to have federated with anything yet.

There’s pros and cons for each approach obvs, and I’m not super-invested in Lemmy vs. PieFed discussions right now, but I felt a strange urge to try to explain some week-old meme (and dick about with some new screen recording software). If you’re right and I’m wrong, then that’s okay too.

OP is referring to a feature of PieFed, which will autocomplete a community’s name if you go to ‘Add Remote Community’. It uses data from lemmyverse.net in the background, so the instance you’re searching on doesn’t have to actually know about the community beforehand.

Video demo:

I think it’s mostly come up as an issue because it’s meant that piefed.social doesn’t federate with lemy.lol (because it uses a Pepe image as its icon), but https://lemmy-federate.com/ uses lemy.lol for back-end operations, so people haven’t been able to add communities on piefed.social to it.

It’s a tricky problem.

If a Lemmy or PieFed [edit: or NodeBB] user Mentions you, it’s because they’re paging you and want to bring a comment to your attention.

If an MBIN or NodeBB Mastodon user Mentions you, it either because they’re paging you, or because they’re replying to a post or comment chain that you’re involved in (it’s been really noticeable when a NodeBB user has put my name in the post body as an explicit Mention, and then all the replies to the post from NodeBB / Mastodon / MBIN users have then also included it as an implicit Mention).

The code for Mentions was written before the Notifications table was improved, so it’s feasible that it can now try to accommodate implicit Mentions, but it’ll never be perfect (because how does an MBIN user explicitly page another user that’s going to get implicitly Mentioned anyway?).

It’s a bit like dealing with a emails from someone who always hits ‘Reply All’ - you’re always being CC’d in, and sometimes it’s relevant, and sometimes it’s not.

Edited to fix misinfo about NodeBB.

Yeah - you can see the tags for this post if you visit https://browser.pub/https://piefed.zip/post/384686 and click on the JSON button.

Lemmy uses the same field, but just automatically puts the community name in there (to aid discovery on platforms like Mastodon).

I’m too sophisticated to watch movies, so I only really know of this line because it was sampled in a Guns n’ Roses song.

I watched Jurassic World: Rebirth the other day (it’s alright). It’s such an odd franchise - one that seems to have lost faith in its own premise. There’s this meta assumption that audiences are bored with dinosaurs (I’m not), and that the solution to this imagined problem is to mutate them (it really isn’t, it’s invariably just silly).

I also don’t care that dinos couldn’t really survive in the modern climate - that’s what the whole ‘suspension of disbelief’ thing is for.

Nope. I don’t agree with cm0002’s campaign of reposting everything posted to a lemmy.ml community to a community hosted elsewhere, so I don’t want to run a bot that suggests there’s genuine growth somewhere when I consider any growth there to be driven by bullshit. The bot was never sophisticated enough to distinguish between the two.

I’m not on vacation - I just tend to use this account instead.

It ended up being more of a proof-of-concept than anything. I forked Thunder by banging my fists on the keyboard until it worked, rather than actually learn anything about Flutter/Dart or proper app development. As soon as another Flutter app came along (Interstellar), I leapt at the chance to abandon it.