The links like [email protected].

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/[email protected]).

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?

    • @marcosOP
      2•1 year ago

      Yes, but links on lemmy.world will work for me. (Your link doesn’t exactly work, but that’s only because the lemmy.world is duplicated.)

      Is that the expected way to use the names? Should I expect communities from other instances to work the same way?

      • @[email protected]
        3•1 year ago

        I edited the link I posted myself as code because when posting an FQDN (fully qualified domain name) Lemmy may do a relative transform, at least that’s what rc.4 is doing. Names starting with a ! are internal Lemmy shortcuts to save users the trouble of typing out the FQDN and dealing with relative versus absolute. They’re not working right everywhere yet, but they should be on the next official version release.

    • @cerevant
      1•1 year ago

      No. This is what I’m seeing your link as:

      https://lemmy.world/post/lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

      First, /post doesn’t work. The FQDN is:

      https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

      However, that will always take you to the lemmy.world website, which if you are a user of lemmy.one (for example) you don’t want - you won’t be able to comment or post there. If you use a relative path:

      /c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

      It tells the browser to go to that location on whatever server you are currently on. As noted elsewhere, this doesn’t work on kbin because they chose to use /m instead of /c. I expect that one or both of Lemmy & Kbin will automatically convert URLs in the future, and will ultimately support the !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world form.

      edit: Note that the “@lemmy.world” is optional when you are on lemmy.world, but it is the part that will get you to the right place if you use the link on another instance.