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“ community link fixer” bot spamming comments
(lemmy.ninja)
Stuff relating to the Lemmy instance Lemmings.world
Again, the bot doesn't explain what the problem is, or why it might be better to use the different format. It just says that some users have problems on different instances. You've left the user to guess what those problems are. I wasn't experiencing any problems with the URL form I was using, so of course I concluded that the bot was wrong.
I went back and tested the !link format on kbin, and it does in fact work. I previously edited my comment to reflect this. Note that I did not test this on a community to which kbin is not already linked, or on a community that has not been searched for on the user's Lemmy instance. However, you may be interested in Cold Hotman's feedback that this doesn't work for Mastodon users.
Edit: It appears that using the !format returns a 404 if nobody on your instance has searched for the community yet. That seems less desirable than the alternatives for people on small instances like mine.