Someone on Mastodon @'d my Lemmy account. how is this possible? I though Lemmy and Mastodon are seperate from each other?

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  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    No, your login only works on one instance, like E-Mail. But you can interact with mastodon. For example, when they use #firefox, we see that as a post in the community firefox. And I believe it’s the other way around too, though I’m not sure.

    • Zak@lemmy.world
      12·
      3 days ago

      A hashtag on Mastodon won’t make a post visible to Lemmy users, but tagging a community (with the double-@ format) in a toplevel post will post to that community.

          • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago
            The MD of your comment as seen on Lemmy 
            [@ChaoticNeutralCzech](https://feddit.org/u/ChaoticNeutralCzech) [@asklemmy](https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy) [@Zak@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/Zak) 

That's true from Lemmy, but not from Mastodon. Mastodon won't detect !asklemmy@lemmy.world as a mention. 

I'm curious as to how Lemmy handles collisions from external sources. [@cat](https://lemmy.world/u/cat) exists as both a user and a community. Since this is a comment, Lemmy shouldn't post it to the community, but will Lemmy users see a link to the user or the community?

            The @cat mention became a hyperlink to the user page.