On Reddit you could put r/wouldyourather and I would link to that community. But because of federation, that does not work on lemmy. It is written as an email address, but you need to put an ! at the begging so it knows it is not an email address. Thus !wouldyourather@lemmy.dbzer0.com
A little more complicated than that, if you want to go to a community hosted on your instance (in your case lemmy.ml), you would go to https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy. This is different from the Ask lemmy hosted at lemmy.world.
To navigate to this community hosted on lemmy.world from your instance, you would instead use https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy@lemmy.world <your_instance>/c/<community>@<instance_hosting_community>
Using an “!” !asklemmy@lemmy.world lets you create a clickable link for other people to a specific community.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Cool. So just put and exclamation point?
On Reddit you could put r/wouldyourather and I would link to that community. But because of federation, that does not work on lemmy. It is written as an email address, but you need to put an ! at the begging so it knows it is not an email address. Thus !wouldyourather@lemmy.dbzer0.com
well, not quite.
It’s so your own instance will properly link to it in a way that will cause you being able to interact with it from your own instance.
So for you the link will be https://populi.xyz/c/wouldyourather@lemmy.dbzer0.com
But for me it would be https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/wouldyourather@lemmy.dbzer0.com
But without the ! it thinks it is an email address correct?
Cool thank you
A little more complicated than that, if you want to go to a community hosted on your instance (in your case lemmy.ml), you would go to
https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy. This is different from the Ask lemmy hosted at lemmy.world.To navigate to this community hosted on lemmy.world from your instance, you would instead use
https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy@lemmy.world<your_instance>/c/<community>@<instance_hosting_community>Using an “!” !asklemmy@lemmy.world lets you create a clickable link for other people to a specific community.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Pls don’t confuse the new guy 😭
I’ve been here for almost a year and I still don’t understand links here. It’s ok, we can get by.
Yes exactly :) Most clients should support it like that. When in doubt, just use the exclamation point
Additional info:
Some apps will also autocomplete while typing it in, which makes it easier for people on other platforms (ex. Mastodon) to be able to use the link.
For example, here are two versions of the link (with the formatting
in this formatso you know what to type)Plain typed link: !communityPromo@lemmy.ca
!communityPromo@lemmy.caAuto completed link: !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
[!communitypromo@lemmy.ca](https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo)So if you have the option to use auto complete, it might be a bit better. Often I just do the first one