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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    9 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.

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          9 days ago
          The MD of your comment as seen on Lemmy
          [@ChaoticNeutralCzech](https://feddit.org/u/ChaoticNeutralCzech) [@asklemmy](https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy) [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.world/u/Zak) 
          
          That's true from Lemmy, but not from Mastodon. Mastodon won't detect [email protected] 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.