tobias/friendica
1
0
Fork 0
Code Pull requests Activity

groups vs forums and mentioning those

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Tobias Diekershoff 2016-01-24 07:42:25 +01:00
parent b77dfb5737
commit 47a936eaa3
1 changed files with 11 additions and 3 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

14
doc/Tags-and-Mentions.md
View file

@ -21,11 +21,19 @@ You can tag a person on a different network or one that is **not in your social
* @mike@macgirvin.com - This is called a "remote mention" and can only be an email-style locator, not a web URL. * @mike@macgirvin.com - This is called a "remote mention" and can only be an email-style locator, not a web URL.
Unless their system blocks unsolicited "mentions", the person tagged will likely receive a "Mention" post/activity or become a direct participant in the conversation in the case of public posts. Please note that Friendica blocks incoming "mentions" from people with no relationship to you. This is a spam prevention measure. Unless their system blocks unsolicited "mentions", the person tagged will likely receive a "Mention" post/activity or become a direct participant in the conversation in the case of public posts.
Please note that Friendica blocks incoming "mentions" from people with no relationship to you.
This is a spam prevention measure.
Remote mentions are delivered using the OStatus protocol. This protocol is used by Friendica and GNU Social and several other systems, but is not currently implemented in Diaspora. Remote mentions are delivered using the OStatus protocol.
This protocol is used by Friendica and GNU Social and several other systems, but is not currently implemented in Diaspora.
Friendica makes no distinction between people and groups for the purpose of tagging. (Some other networks use !group to indicate a group.) Friendica makes no distinction between people and forums for the purpose of tagging.
(Some other networks use !forum to indicate a forum.)
If you sort your contacts into groups, you cannot @-mention these groups.
But you can select the group in the access control when creating a new posting, to allow (or disallow) a certain group of people to see the posting.
See [Groups and Privacy](help/Groups-and-Privacy) for more details about grouping your contacts.
**Topical Tags** **Topical Tags**