The Monkey’s Paw is originally a short story written in 1902 by W.W. Jacobs, where the paw grants three wishes in a very cruel way. As in: did you wish for money? Well, enjoy collecting the inheritance from your now dead beloved relative.
In this community, [The Monkey’s Paw] (/c/monkeyspaw@sopuli.xyz), we do the same thing. One person makes a wish, and the others reply and explain how the wish backfired in funny, unexpected, or ironic ways.
So join us over at https://sopuli.xyz/c/monkeyspaw in making wishes and watching them beautifully crash and burn.
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: !monkeyspaw@sopuli.xyz
Mlem app on iOS actually redirected me in-app using the regular link! Also this link. Cool!
It works fine for me on lemm.ee using Jerboa.
That’s probably the result of Jerboa detecting that the link is to a Lemmy community and handling it gracefully. While that’s a great feature the Jerboa devs have included, it’s not how Lemmy currently functions with regard to linking to communities. Lots of apps and browsers don’t handle the URLs nicely, unfortunately.
Lemmy devs should probably implement something to natively handle URLs and “properly formatted” links in the same way. If Jerboa can do it, then it can obviously be done. Until then though, proper formatting helps unite Lemmy users across platforms.
TLDR: I get on a soapbox about cross-platform interoperability because I had a bad week at work.
Nice community idea! I’ll definitely be subscribing.
Op’s link opens for me but I don’t see any option there to join. Am I sol as a kbinner?
Someone posted this earlier for people on kbin: https://kbin.social/m/monkeyspaw@sopuli.xyz
That worked. Thank you.
