Support @[email protected] markdown

[Sjmarf]

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Describe the feature you'd like

Lemmy-ui renders [email protected] as a community link. It does not render @[email protected] as a user link. Instead, when you start typing a user link in that format, it lets you search Lemmy users and inserts a markdown link like so:

[@[email protected]](https://example.com/u/user)

Is there a reason why it's done this way? Supporting @[email protected] directly as done with community links seems simpler to me.

Side note: is the markdown documentation found here for Lemmy as a whole or just for Lemmy-ui? It seems to be missing a few features that Lemmy-ui supports (strikethrough, tables, community links and footnote references). This makes it unclear which features I need to be supporting as a client developer. If it is indeed incomplete, I’d be happy to expand on it :)

[DejayRezme]

I was reminded about this from this "Lemmy APPs test" post. The problem with the current implementation is that these links work wrong - you click on a user link you go to a different lemmy instance. If you then look for the users posts or want to message or follow them, you stay on the wrong instance. Then you'd have to find the specific post on your own instance to comment etc.

Just @[email protected] should work instead and keep you within your own instance.

Furthermore now that there are so many "historic" posts with the wrong behavior, it might be worth it to transform these http username links back to local username links in the client so even historic username links stay within the local instance. Hope this makes sense.