Welcome! Just FYI, these questions are usually answerable in the sub Lemmy_Support over at lemmy.ml.
Communities are called communities, there hasn’t been really any push to rename them anything different.
You do have links, it’s /c/ for us, but you’re on the fediverse now so be care full with links. Not everyone is going to use the same host to access Lemmy, for example you’re on lemmy.world and I’m on my own hosted one, so that /c/ link may fail for me as my instance may not be subscribed yet. (Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of it).
The safer way to link communities is using the !____@_____ notation, similar to email addresses. So for the support community it’d be !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml - which all instances know how to link to that.
Honestly, this is the kind of thing that should be hidden behind the UI. I’ve been on the internet long enough that I remember when we had to use a similar approach for addressing emails - where you essentially had to put routing information into your address field, rather than letting the servers figure it out.
Apollo, for instance, had a feature like autocomplete for /r links. It wasn’t perfect, but it helped.
The fragmentation of similar/identically oriented communities is a strength in some ways but at the same time presents a fragmented user experience. While I recognize the challenges on the server side if there’s not an aggregator, I think the client should be able to allow users to designate what would essentially be a multireddit consisting of all of the news.whatever communities, and offer further aggregation that the seven different posts linking to the same article into a single post. There’s a few different ways replies could be handled, but that’s the general idea.
We want to make sure we keep the strengths of federation while hiding things like duplication from users.
Sync does a good job at this, the best of any clients as long as it’s in the ! notation. There are definitely several issues over on the Lemmy github asking to clean up the webui though for all the reasons you’re calling out.
That’s an Android only app, right? I’ve been tempted to pick up an Android device just to check it out. I am not allowed to be involved in any app development myself but my understanding is that sync is the high water mark for clients right now.
The default Web UI also has autocomplete as well, though its a bit iffy sometimes:
It works for both communities and users as well
You’re not… allowed?
Yes, my employment agreement restricts my extracurricular activities.
I… believe so. I only have android and it’s on there, I don’t think there’s an iOS version.
I’ve heard communities on Lemmy, magazines on kbin, and a lot of expats from Reddit like to call them subs.
Yeah potato tomato, all means the same. Lemmy -> community as kbin -> magazine, and we all know sub means one of them. No wrong answers :)
I call communities for “comms”.
Sublemmy could also be used.
A sublemmy. Multiple sublemmies.
“Commies” is a good one too. A good cutesy way to shorten it.
!android@lemdro.id is the standard way of linking to a community on Lemmy and magazines on kbin/mbin (!community@instance.domain).
Basically, the r/ is replaced with an ! , the exclamation mark. Other comments give good examples of usage.
You can also use c/community.
but it won’t auto make a hotlink, and that’s local only to your instance. To make a community link you have to use the !@ syntax, like !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
Communities on lemmy, Magazines on kbin. To link a community: !communityname@instancename
Sublemmies, of course.
Subs still works for me :)
Wrt to linking, since Lemmy is a federated service you generally need to supply the instance as well afaik. Eg: /c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
Edit: welp, the /c/ either doesn’t work on my mobile client or is limited to some instances…
Another commenter said:
The safer way to link communities is using the !_@__ notation, similar to email addresses. So for the support community it’d be !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml - which all instances know how to link to that.
