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How do you properly link to a sub? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Lemmy needs to take a page from Reddit's book and automatically link communities with something like "c/asklemmy"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Or your federated instances

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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].

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I don’t know why the bang syntax exists or how it’s different

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 @username and the e-mail style of username@domain). With [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) it is made clear that the URL refers to a community and not an user.

It's just easier to write !foo@bar instead of building an URL using some sort of path.