Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
Since mastodon has no equivalent to lemmy’s communities, it can’t handle lemmy’s !community@instance links.
Communities are represented as a regular user on the mastodon side, if you mention a user (using @) on mastodon, it will be parsed as a markdown link on lemmy: [@lucy_idk](https://mastodon.world/@lucy_idk)
@d_k_bo
d_k_boyou are right. I wanted to share it with my mastodon account, but then there is only the url and not the picture in the post. Maybe there is a way i didn’t see. so i took the meme and credited with the source and shared it with my community. It becames funny bc @programmerhumor then reposted my repost from their meme… so a new dimension is createt ^2
 [#C](https://mastodon.world/tags/C)++ [#C](https://mastodon.world/tags/C)# [#programminglanguages](https://mastodon.world/tags/programminglanguages) [#programming]](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/111/053/602/727/994/806/original/538b29b9a1af74ca.jpg){kind=link}
Imagine reposting to the same community you took the meme from 🤦
I think it wasn’t meant as a repost to this community. It was a post on mastodon that was picked up by lemmy because this community was credited:
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
@CommunityLinkFixer
This is for lemmy users right? The @ version is better for mastodon right?
@d_k_bo
Since mastodon has no equivalent to lemmy’s communities, it can’t handle lemmy’s !community@instance links.
Communities are represented as a regular user on the mastodon side, if you mention a user (using @) on mastodon, it will be parsed as a markdown link on lemmy:
[@lucy_idk](https://mastodon.world/@lucy_idk)@d_k_bo
d_k_boyou are right. I wanted to share it with my mastodon account, but then there is only the url and not the picture in the post. Maybe there is a way i didn’t see. so i took the meme and credited with the source and shared it with my community. It becames funny bc @programmerhumor then reposted my repost from their meme… so a new dimension is createt ^2
@Chais
For future reference if you tag the Lemmy community in a reply instead of the top-level toot it won’t do this 😄