Paradoxvoid

Oof https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BC%AA

I had this exact fight with my team several months ago, and lost to popular opinion since the rest of my team are either zoomers or indifferent.

People saying Steam doesn't have a monopoly because other stores exist, is the same as saying Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on PC Gaming because Mac and Linux exist. Technically true, but ultimately meaningless because its their market power that determines a monopoly, not whether there are other niche players.

While Valve and Steam have generally been a good player, and currently do offer the best product, they still wield an ungodly amount of influence over the PC gaming market space.

Epic is chasing that because they really want what Valve has, though no doubt they plan to speedrun the enshittification process as soon as they think it safe.

Wait... People are calling the emergency phone line after getting scammed? Wonder if that's just Zoomers being too dumb to avoid scams but not dumb enough to think an emergency phone call will help.

Can confirm that the first doesn't work on Alexandrite, but the second works as expected.

I think you're right and it's frontend-specific - I'm using Alexandrite and it shows perfectly, but I just checked the default Lemmy UI and it doesn't handle it properly either.

Tbh it sounds more and more like it's a kbin interaction problem rather than anything you're doing...

Not sure if there's any way for you to resolve it other than getting a Beehaw mod to update it for you.

If you look at the source between your post and the OP of this chain, you can see that they haven't got any special link formatting, but the links will all work correctly for any lemmy user no matter their instance - not sure if kbin handles it correctly.

e.g. [!destroy\_my\_game](https://programming.dev/c/destroy_my_game) vs [!destroy_my_game@programming.dev](/c/destroy_my_game@programming.dev)

I suspect it's just a convenience thing, since a number of your links point to kbin.cafe search results.

I think Lemmy uses ! for instances because @ is used for users - e.g. I expect that @floppy@reabbitea.rs will automatically link to your profile on your instance (and link to your profile on any other viewer's instance - e.g. for me it should link to an aussie.zone URL).

It's probably a design decision to differentiate communities from users.

Since you're posting to a lemmy instance (beehaw), you should probably use the lemmy style - i.e. !community@instance - I don't think there's any need to create an explicit link since I think most UIs will format it for you.

Overwatch(2) - !overwatch2@lemmy.ml

If we want authors to survive, we’ve got to stop assuming that authors’ intellectual labour is a public commodity.

The irony being that this is exactly what copyright was originally intended to facilitate - authors creating works to become public domain within a relatively short period of time.