How do you properly link to a sub?
On reddit I could do something like r/subname and it would just work. How do I do that on Lemmy?
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On reddit I could do something like r/subname and it would just work. How do I do that on Lemmy?
If your instance is running version 0.18 you can type /c/[email protected] to link to this sub.
So
/c/community@instance.I'm not completely sure but i think ![email protected]
[email protected]Here's a clickable example for this community:
![email protected]
I think Lemmy needs to take a page from Reddit's book and automatically link communities with something like "c/asklemmy"
This would only possible for the current instance, though. Since Lemmy is a federated service it is relevant to always provide the instance URL, too. Not everyone uses ![email protected] at lemmy.ml.
A feature similar to RES, maybe one that pulls from your subscriptions, would be nice. Start typing the name of a community and it suggests some autofill options formatted in a way that folks from other instances can click on it easily.
Or your federated instances
I don’t know why the bang syntax exists or how it’s different, but you can use the /c/ syntax for this too. It would just become /c/[email protected].
Maybe because of the success of Mastodon using
@[email protected](which basically is the combination of the common practice of other social media networks using@usernameand the e-mail style ofusername@domain). With[email protected]it is made clear that the URL refers to a community and not an user.It's just easier to write
!foo@barinstead of building an URL using some sort of path.Soo to test ![email protected]