this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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Well I've definitely misinterpreted.
This might be a UI issue, because I see the post as coming from 'David Gerard@awful.systems' and then I see your comment as
Which to me I interpreted as 'lol this is David Gerard - gtfo here'. Especially with the reply from second user, "thanks, blocked".
Mastodon just adds the username in the comment when replying to a Lemmy post or comment. It seems to be possible to remove the @-tag manually, but many people don't do that.
P.S. It's also kinda an exposition of how people tend to reply to the imaginary correspondent, even with rather rude language, when actually their replies go to the OP.
adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance
anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges
at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it's a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.)