What is this thing? - Lemmy.world
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  • mykl@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    1 year ago

    I feel your pain 😀

    When I read the instructions for this group I was surprised how many different formats there were, some of which didn’t seem to do anything for me. I just worked on the assumption that each of them must support some different users or use cases. Hopefully this will all settle down at some point and we’ll all know exactly what links to use for what purpose 🤞

      • mykl@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, but it’s nice to realise that other people are going ‘huh?’ at some of this stuff too.

        • Hedup@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh, I actually noticed a thing I said was wrong. I said:

          What works for me is this link: /c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

          It doesn’t work after all. What I was looking at was the “source” of the OP which showed

          “What is this thing?”

          as

          ["What is this thing?"](/c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world)

          which made me think that writing community links works just like reddit and you can just write c/<community>@<communitys_instance> and it will link to it. But turns out it doesn’t work like that after all.

          What works is specifically using the link syntax of

          [<link_title>](c/<community>@<communitys_instance>)

          which will create a link, but

          c/<community>@<communitys_instance>

          by itself wont.