Should it start with an exclamation mark? Or is somecommunity@lemmy.world fine? I want to have the best chance of compatibility with everyone’s devices.
From what I’ve seen using the exclamation mark gives the best experience as the person clicking the link stays within their same instance, rather than going to the instance the community is hosted on. Also it looks like how you linked the community made the system think it’s an email address so it doesn’t work that way.
example: !support@lemmy.world
it fails ungracefully when the linked community isn’t federated with the one the visitor is following the URL from
!community@instance.tld is best
The exclamation mark is extraneous and creates confusing a visual indicator as to whether a link is to the hosting instance of the community rather than a link to the federated copy on whatever instance you’re on. It works one way in some circumstances and the opposite way in others. And it won’t work at all for people who are on an instance that hasn’t federated with that community. It has in fact been depreciated by the main devs of Lemmy but that’s only documented in comments to github issues.
It’s been deprecated? What the hell are we supposed to do now?
Use /c/support@lemmy.world I usually make it a hyperlink like this: support@lemmy.world | Local Link
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: !support@lemmy.world
LOL This bot recommending the thing that doesn’t work right and is being phased out.
