What do I do with the !community@instance links?
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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Yep this is the right way. This is how we link communities as well.