Looking at OP’s post history over the last 24 hours, maybe that bug should be upgraded to a feature.
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
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.
