How do I reference another community on my or another instance? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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On reddit if I wanted to refer to a subreddit I'd type /r/oneOrangeBraincell/ and that would get turned into a link. What's the lemmy equivalent?

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[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

!fediverse@lemmy.world will work anywhere

[-] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 2 points 1 year ago

That is not true. It will fail with a cryptic error message on all instances that have never searched for fediverse@lemmy.world, and it will fail for Mastodon users. Those are just the ones we’ve discovered so far.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 6 points 1 year ago

On Voyager, I need to tap it, get the cryptic error message, then refresh, and it works.

Annoying, but for free alpha software, I'm not going to complain too much.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Just refresh or go back and click the link again and it should work. It's only when it's the first time accessing. At least for me.

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Weirdly enough, on Kbin, if I click that link, it loads me that instance's feed within Kbin. But if I middle-click that same link to open it in a new tab, it opens on the original instance's page, instead.

As if we didn't have enough confusing little oddities on Kbin as it was, lol