If you want to have pretty links, can add linking to a Lemmy community or Mastodon account

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨otter@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

Lemmy:

You can put the image markdown inside a link markdown

Regular link: [link_text](LINK_URL)
Image link: ![](IMAGE_URL)
All together: [![](IMAGE_URL)](LINK_URL)

For example:

[![](https://img.shields.io/lemmy/canada%40lemmy.ca?label=canada%40lemmy.ca&amp;color=%239e090a&amp;link=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com
)](https://lemmy.ca/c/Canada)

Image

Mastodon:

It’s listed on shields.io, but I had trouble getting it working. I’ll edit in instructions once I figure it out.

SAMPLE before: lemmy.ca/post/2890824

SAMPLE after: lemmy.ca/post/2530982 (modified a few of the links)

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cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Please don’t hardcode the instance! Instead of linking to https://lemmy.ca/c/canada you should use /c/canada@lemmy.ca so it works properly for people on more than one instance.

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- otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh huh, I tried a number of combinations to get the universal link but I didn’t try that one. Thanks!
  
  Poor bot probably can’t scan image links
  
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- CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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: !canada@lemmy.ca
  
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starman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s a really nice use of shields.io

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