Hey people! I have just started using Lemmy and have have got a basic feel for how it works ok. The one thing that confuses me is the navigation using the exclamation mark, like ‘[email protected]’
All the help blogs say go to search in your home instance and type [email protected]’, but why would I do that. If I know the name of the community I want why not just go to the address bar of my home instance and add ‘/c/[email protected]’.
Isn’t that easier, with less steps? Can someone explain the benefit of the ‘!’ addressing.
Cheers everyone!
the ! addressing allows you to post a link that anybody can click to get their instance’s version of the community link. So for example, [email protected] posted anywhere on lemmy becomes a link to https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected] for me, but the exact same link is a link to https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected] for you
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: [email protected], [email protected]