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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    The most commonly used format is !community@instance.tld (the exclamation point is important). For something like 90% of Lemmy - browser and apps - that should open the community in your home instance when clicked. Only one of the iOS apps (Memmy, Mlem? I don’t have an iPhone sadly) had issues with this format.

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    There are several ways to link to a community. If your instance has had someone previously search for the community, then they will all work. If this hasn’t happened (usually because your instance is small or new) then there can be problems with the “shorthand” method that begins with an !. I’ve written a full explanation in this article at the Community Search Tips community. It lists the drawbacks and advantages of each approach that I’m aware of.

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      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

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      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.

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        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.

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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        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.