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1 year agoYou don’t have to create an account on the instance to subscribe to their communities.
You can, for example, search for !programming@programming.dev to index that community from your home instance.
You don’t have to create an account on the instance to subscribe to their communities.
You can, for example, search for !programming@programming.dev to index that community from your home instance.
From my understanding, it’s an indicator that differentiates Lemmy links from email addresses.
If you follow the link conventions, !technology@beehaw.org should link to a Lemmy community, rather than open a new email compose window.