That’s what this does:

[Some text here](community@instance.here)

Tap the ‘more’ skinny hamburger menu just above below this message to ‘view source’ of the below:

blah blah blah links to [email protected]

Actually…better, here is one for an instance that is neither yours or the one you posted into:

blay harg vlar

Edit Sorry I misunderstood. I believe you can link the community as a whole, but posts I don’t believe you can.

There isn’t a way at the moment. Solutions to this are being discussed on Github

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

Edit 2

Maybe you can’t link a community either, I could have sworn I have seen it done but that could have just happened to be for my instance.

Edit 3

My testing please ignore :)

Test

Yes it would be very convenient, right now if I’m recommending a community I simply write out the URL manually to make sure it routes via the respective user’s instance first.

I’d like to know too. I was hoping it would be something simple like !community@host.com which would resolve for everyone. Didn’t work when I tried it, though I might not have done it correctly.

EDIT: I guess I could try again here [email protected]

EDIT2: Nope: That link goes to https://lemmy.world/post/!asklemmy@lemmy.ml for me, which is not valid.

Once your Lemmy web frontend upgrades to version 0.18, the following should all auto-link with no extra syntax:

• [email protected]
• /c/[email protected]
• /m/[email protected]
• /u/[email protected]

These should then all link to the instance you’re currently on.

Note: because this is implemented in the frontend and does not change the underlying data, other Fediverse clients will not show these the same unless they also implement this themselves.