- https://lemmy.world/c/bestoflemmy
- !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
- /c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
- Kbin users: /m/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
This is a bit of a “Meta community”. Lemmy users are still new and confused (though enthusiastic). Finding good threads that “sample” what Lemmy is about and what it can do will be a good thing, at least in the short term, to help this community figure out the hows and why’s of Lemmy and its federation model.
The full address. If you’re not from lemmy.world, this will show you logged out. Solution: #3.
Use this to search for a community in order to subscribe. You can omit the bang (‘!’), but then you will only find the community if another lemming of your home instance has already discovered it. To discover it, you have to bang it.
In short, searching for !com@ins.tance is like searching for com@ins.tance with added functionality and no downsides (as far as I’m aware of, still learning).
This is very important for lemmings on small instances. Lemmings on big instances often don’t need to use the bang, because someone else from their home instance has likely already discovered.
Note how when you click on the full address (1) of a community hosted in another instance, you are not logged in anymore? Option 3 solves this problem, it is a link relative to your current position. It allows you to visit the community and subscribe to it because you remain logged in. If you get a 404 error, bang it first using #2.
Clicking on #1 will lead you to https://lemmy.world/c/bestoflemmy, where your current user does not exist, so you cannot subscribe. So when coming from ins.tance, clicking on #3 will lead you to https://ins.tance/c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world and you can subscribe.