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  • dragontamer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Because Lemmy doesn’t have unified links yet to discussions.

    Go to another instance, such as https://sh.itjust.works/post/204760

    The first link is “off https://sh.itjust.works”, so they don’t like that link.

    The 2nd link is “supposed” to be how Lemmy links work, but the software isn’t there yet. I’m hoping that over the long term, the frontend / backend interprets !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world correctly.

    The 3rd link is a hack which seems to work across the Lemmyverse. I’m not sure what the long-term support is, or if its “proper behavior” to use that link. But it works today.

    The 4th link is for kbin.social, because those crazy people managed to start Federating with Lemmy.

    • timelighter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      undefined> Use this to search for a community in order to subscribe. You can omit the bang (‘!’), but then you will only find the community if another lemming of your home instance has already discovered it. To discover it, you have to bang it.

      In short, searching for !com@ins.tance is like searching for com@ins.tance with added functionality and no downsides (as far as I’m aware of, still learning).

      This is very important for lemmings on small instances. Lemmings on big instances often don’t need to use the bang, because someone else from their home instance has likely already discovered.

      I feel like I’m in the 1990s trying to set up everything through a VCR