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I'm not sure how I'm supposed to access that community
turns out its a mastodon account. if you're on mastodon paste that address into your search
the fediverse is frustrating like that.
Oh sorry, I was hoping Lemmy would just bring up a profile page. Theoretically that should be possible and would actually be an awesome Fediverse feature, but reality is a bitch 😅
You can create a link to the Profile and mention them in the content, like this: @linmob@linuxmobile.social
That would've been awesome if Lemmy had done that automatically, for lazy folks like me 😅️