So, the syntax is:

!truegaming@kbin.social

That yields:

[email protected]

On lemmy instances, the visible text is “!” and then “[email protected]”.

On kbin instances – and I really think that this should be changed – the instance renders the visible text to be “!” and then “truegaming”.

Both still create a valid link to it if you use the syntax with the appended “@instancename”. Just on kbin, you don’t get to see what someone actually typed. You can hover the mouse over it to see the instance to which it’s linking.

Here’s a direct link to kbin.social to see what my comment looks like there:

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And here’s a direct link to my home instance, lemmy.today, to see what it looks like there:

https://lemmy.today/comment/7669420

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Hmm. No, actually, kbin appears to be mangling the rendering, but that’s apparently because it’s breaking on the blockquote text, not the link syntax.

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Okay. Let me see if I can fix the blockquote bit.

EDIT: Working. It looks like kbin blows up if you stick the bang syntax in a “four leading spaces from the beginning of the line” blockquote, but is okay if you surround the text by backticks. The kbin guys oughta fix that. But…the link should work fine in normal text. Just becomes an issue if you’re trying to show people what the actual syntax is.

EDIT2: No, dammit. It’s still broken on kbin. I know that this can work, because my other comment in the thread about Instance Assistant renders using bang syntax just fine on kbin and uses the same syntax. Hmm.

Well, I am thinking that there is something broken kbin side. Maybe report the comment as a bug to the kbin guys (or if they’re overloaded – I understand that Ernest got kind of overwhelmed – maybe the mbin guys, as I am assuming that they can pull patches from each other).

EDIT3: It apparently works fine on mbin, so I’m assuming that they’ve already patched whatever bug is on kbin:

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