That’s what this does:

[Some text here](community@instance.here)

Tap the ‘more’ skinny hamburger menu just above below this message to ‘view source’ of the below:

blah blah blah links to [email protected]

Actually…better, here is one for an instance that is neither yours or the one you posted into:

blay harg vlar

Once your Lemmy web frontend upgrades to version 0.18, the following should all auto-link with no extra syntax:

• [email protected]
• /c/[email protected]
• /m/[email protected]
• /u/[email protected]

These should then all link to the instance you’re currently on.

Note: because this is implemented in the frontend and does not change the underlying data, other Fediverse clients will not show these the same unless they also implement this themselves.

Edit Sorry I misunderstood. I believe you can link the community as a whole, but posts I don’t believe you can.

There isn’t a way at the moment. Solutions to this are being discussed on Github

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

Edit 2

Maybe you can’t link a community either, I could have sworn I have seen it done but that could have just happened to be for my instance.

Edit 3

My testing please ignore :)

Test1

Yes it would be very convenient, right now if I’m recommending a community I simply write out the URL manually to make sure it routes via the respective user’s instance first.

Yes, you can do this using a relative URL!

Here’s an example.

Here’s how I wrote it:

[Here's an example.](/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)

Because this URL doesn’t have a protocol or a domain, your browser fills those in from the URL of the page you’re on when you see it. Since that’s on your local Lemmy instance, you’ll see a link to [email protected] on that instance.

Also: When you’re looking at a Lemmy comment, if you don’t know how the author wrote the markup for it, you can use the “view source” button underneath the “…” menu.

Note: These links will NOT work between Lemmy and Kbin, because Kbin uses /m/ instead of /c/.