Took this from the sidebar at newcommunities

[link text](/c/community@instance.com)

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won’t

To my knowledge this doesn’t work if a user in your instance hasn’t previously searched for the community

You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000

There are a bunch of comments in this thread on kbin.social at https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/26213/XKCD-1172 but none here at lemmy.one. Every time I think I understand federation I get thrown for a loop

This and the email analogy has helped me understand how all these fediverse apps interact. Thanks for the explanation.