No. That will post it to a nicole hashtag, on friendica you can make groups display posts from certain hashtags, but not lemmy.
technical explanation
On ActivityPub, the protocol that lemmy and masto use, everything is an Actor or an object. An actor is a person or a group. An object is a post or similar.
When you post to a group, you send the post to the group actors “inbox”.
When you mention someone in a post, it sends the post to that persons “inbox”.
This way, mentioning a group sends the post to the groups inbox.
No. That will post it to a nicole hashtag, on friendica you can make groups display posts from certain hashtags, but not lemmy.
technical explanation
On ActivityPub, the protocol that lemmy and masto use, everything is an Actor or an object. An actor is a person or a group. An object is a post or similar.
When you post to a group, you send the post to the group actors “inbox”. When you mention someone in a post, it sends the post to that persons “inbox”. This way, mentioning a group sends the post to the groups inbox.
Thanks for the technical bit - I’d never bothered to learn how the Fediverse works until now!