The links like !NoStupidQuestions@lemmy.world.

I have had a pretty bad time making those work. I have tried searching for them at the communities page, and removing the exclamation mark and pasting them on my instance (lemmy.world/c/NoStupidQuestions@lemmy.world).

Some times one of those works, other times my instance finds nothing. And if I go directly to the home instance of the community, it doesn’t bring my login.

What is the recommended way to use those?

  • cerevant@lemmy.world
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    They are only really useful for getting an instance to federate an off instance community- you paste that form in the search box, and usually a few minutes later you can access the community.

    If you want to have a link to a community, use just ‘/c/community@instance.tld’ - even if the instance is the one you are on. That way it will work wherever you are logged in. example is a link to ‘/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

    I haven’t found a way to link posts or comments that are instance portable- if anyone knows of a way, I’d love to hear it.

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      Unfortunately that link doesn’t work on kbin, which uses /m/ instead of /c/

      Hopefully we’ll get patches in the future that will link the ! format correctly no matter what software or instance we’re using.

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        0.18.0+ already does that on the lemmy side, even for links meant for kbin.

        So we’re really just waiting for the feature to become univeral, now.

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        This is one reason I don’t use Kbin - it seems to have pointlessly chosen its own terminology just to distinguish itself from Lemmy which makes it less useful.

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          Thanks.

          I just replaced the c in the link with m and it worked. Thank you this thread.

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      That way it will work wherever you are logged in. example is a link to ‘/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

      Yeah, those don’t work from kbin. None of the links I’ve found in c/newcommunities works for me. Am patiently waiting for whatever the problem is to be resolved.

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        Yeah, kbin decided to create its own conventions rather than being compatible with Lemmy. I’m hoping they’ll rethink that.

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          Thanks.

          I just replaced the c in the link with m and it worked. Thank you this thread.