I’ve noticed a minor issue when trying to subscribe to a Lemmy community. On the Lemmy instance, the link format for a Community starts with an exclamation mark (“!”), instead of the “@” used here and across other services like Mastodon.

Copy/pasting the community to the search bar doesn’t work until I manually change the “!” to an “@”. Subscribing to things on other instances is already somewhat confusing for new users, this makes it even worse.

Suggestion: if the “!” doesn’t work, automatically try “@” behind the scenes.

As a side note, Lemmy instances have a helpful message telling you exactly how to subscribe to something from a different service or instance. I’d suggest putting a similar message in the Magazine sidebar along with the Magazine username reference.