Those three bullet points confuse me. Are they different; if so, how? Are they the same, just different notations; if so, why?
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.
1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found here.
2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Formatting
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/[email protected])
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
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Q: Why do I get a 404?
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The full address. If you're not from lemmy.world, this will show you logged out. Solution: #3.
Use this to search for a community in order to subscribe. You can omit the bang ('!'), but then you will only find the community if another lemming of your home instance has already discovered it. To discover it, you have to bang it.
In short, searching for [email protected] is like searching for [email protected] with added functionality and no downsides (as far as I'm aware of, still learning).
This is very important for lemmings on small instances. Lemmings on big instances often don't need to use the bang, because someone else from their home instance has likely already discovered.
Note how when you click on the full address (1) of a community hosted in another instance, you are not logged in anymore? Option 3 solves this problem, it is a link relative to your current position. It allows you to visit the community and subscribe to it because you remain logged in. If you get a 404 error, bang it first using #2.
Clicking on #1 will lead you to https://lemmy.world/c/bestoflemmy, where your current user does not exist, so you cannot subscribe. So when coming from ins.tance, clicking on #3 will lead you to https://ins.tance/c/[email protected] and you can subscribe.
Because Lemmy doesn't have unified links yet to discussions.
Go to another instance, such as https://sh.itjust.works/post/204760
The first link is "off https://sh.itjust.works", so they don't like that link.
The 2nd link is "supposed" to be how Lemmy links work, but the software isn't there yet. I'm hoping that over the long term, the frontend / backend interprets [email protected] correctly.
The 3rd link is a hack which seems to work across the Lemmyverse. I'm not sure what the long-term support is, or if its "proper behavior" to use that link. But it works today.
The 4th link is for kbin.social, because those crazy people managed to start Federating with Lemmy.
undefined> Use this to search for a community in order to subscribe. You can omit the bang (‘!’), but then you will only find the community if another lemming of your home instance has already discovered it. To discover it, you have to bang it.
In short, searching for [email protected] is like searching for [email protected] with added functionality and no downsides (as far as I’m aware of, still learning).
This is very important for lemmings on small instances. Lemmings on big instances often don’t need to use the bang, because someone else from their home instance has likely already discovered.
I feel like I'm in the 1990s trying to set up everything through a VCR
The third link keeps crashing Jerboa. :(
Edit: so does the fourth. The second opens an email. I need a manual lol.
As far as I understand so far, but somebody help me out here:
The first one is the full URL to the community.
The second one is the short handle of the community. (Only work on its home instance, in this case lemmy.world)
The third one is for if you want to directly link the the community from a different instance.
The fourth is self-explanatory.
Unfortunately the title links take you out of your instance to the original instance of the post. Not sure how to fix that, though.
the title links take you out of your instance
The third link solves that problem. See my other comment in this thread for a detailed explanation.
Ah, now everything seems to work.
Oh nice, I loved r/bestofreddit and was wondering if there was something similar here. Thanks!
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