On reddit I could do something like r/subname and it would just work. How do I do that on Lemmy?

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know why the bang syntax exists or how it’s different

      Maybe because of the success of Mastodon using @username@example.com (which basically is the combination of the common practice of other social media networks using @username and the e-mail style of username@domain). With !community@example.com it is made clear that the URL refers to a community and not an user.

      It’s just easier to write !foo@bar instead of building an URL using some sort of path.