I bet it will be 
related, especially because of the 
stench that wafts off of "the problem is both sides are too extreme" Enlightened Centrists that already showed up here, and few things get them more defensive and tribalistic than vegans existing, let alone stating (correctly) the cost and consequences of industrialized meat production.
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That user is posting from mastodon, thats how replies from mastodon are shown on lemmy
@replaceable @UlyssesT yes sorry didn't mean to be rude
All good; I understand the @ ping reason now.
@replaceable @UlyssesT all replies on my platform begin with @ ing prior posters in the thread
@replaceable @UlyssesT federation is very cool but many elements of the interoperability still need a lot of work. Still neat that it functions at all. On my end if I want to subscribe to a comm here every single post goes into my home feed so it becomes a bit of a firehose. I don't mind but it seems to discourage some people
is it not just the same as if you follow a hashtag or whatever?
There is... probably maybe a way to silo these things off but I am dumb and lazy
Sure, but why @ me about that one anyway?
i think it works like twitter?
so auto pings the op + whoever they're replying to?
Well, all right then. That's new to me.
Yes, it is a lot like Twitter. Let's see what happens if I manually delete those @s... Does this work?