To make a link to a community, use the [link markup](/like/this) but with the URL being specifically /c/[email protected]. For example: [this](/c/[email protected]) to make this.
(If it's unclear, view source on this comment.)
If this seems weird, look up "relative URLs". /c/[email protected] is a relative URL that will show up correctly for anyone on any Lemmy instance.
I feel like a lot of optimisations like this just may not have come up as a priority previously, because there hasn't been much activity on Lemmy to require streamlining this stuff. At least, that's what I hope; I'm crossing my fingers that once the Reddit hug server explosions have settled down, they'll be able to start improving features like this, now there's people here to use them.
oh for sure, and once I'm done being so busy with work I plan on jumping into the frontend code and optimizing, I hope we won't be needing a RES-like thing because open source allows us to just plug it into the code directly.