Honestly, I was thinking post-approval by mods would be the best solution, for just that reason. Its why I led with the question about the existance of mods. Obviously too much work if its just the single mod who started the community.
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tal@olio.cafe 1 week agoHonestly, the bang syntax for instance-agnostic communities isn’t not very obvious to new users. It’s not a piece of standard Markdown syntax, either, so it’s not like someone can use knowledge from Reddit or elsewhere.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
And the standard web interface, from what I see, does not display it, or have a copy community link button.
tal@olio.cafe 1 week ago
Further complicating this, the Threadiverse also has “display names” for communities — something which I think is probably a mistake — and one has to know how to get the actual name for the bang-syntax link. For example, the display name here is “New Communities”, but the actual community name is “newcommunities”.