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tal@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It works on both kbin and lemmy. And if it works on kbin, I assume that it works on mbin, given that that’s a fork.

I’m pretty sure at this point that the bang syntax has enough inertia that if a given Threadiverse server implementation doesn’t support it, it should. I don’t think that the syntax is particularly flawed. Well, other than that it doesn’t directly map to the URL’s syntax, a la the Reddit convention of “/r/foo” or the kbin convention of “/b/”, which might make it less-intuitive.

Hmm. Actually, this should be pretty easy to test, because…the magic of the Threadiverse’s guest access and federation.

Works on Kbin!

kbin.social/m/…/How-to-revitalize-this-sub#entry-…

Works on Piefed!

piefed.social/post/88672#post_replies

I don’t know of an active sublinks instance, and nobody on fedia.io – the largest mbin instance – appears to presently be subscribed to !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works.

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BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Alright I’m probably being a dummy. Nothing happens when I do !kbin.social/m/truegaming.

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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  So, the syntax is:
  
  !truegaming@kbin.social
  
  That yields:
  
  !truegaming@kbin.social
  
  On lemmy instances, the visible text is “!truegaming@kbin.social”.
  
  On kbin instances – and I really think that this should be changed – the instance renders the visible text to be “!truegaming”.
  
  Both still create a valid link to it if you use the syntax with the appended “@instancename”. Just on kbin, you don’t get to see what someone actually typed. You can hover the mouse over it to see the instance to which it’s linking.
  
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  - Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    On kbin instances…the instance renders the visible text to be “!” and then “truegaming”
    
    Holy shit that is so bad. Like, just an inexcusably awful user experience, that cannot possibly have any effect but to cause confusion.
    
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  - BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Perfect thank you! I bounce between Memmy app and mobile version of kbin so I get turned around a lot.
    
    !truegaming. Bam
    
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BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
!truegaming it is then lol

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