Hey! Didn't even know you could ping people. I'm not super active but I'm here every so often. What's up?
I'm all for defederating Hexbear, but lemmy.ml is absolutely huge compared to Hexbear. To motivate the community to do that you'd need quite a bit of proof. Or at least something rather compelling. Do you have any proof of what you're referring to?
How did you make that universal link?
I think so. I mean, it depend what phone or more specifically what launcher you use.
To add to this, you can use exclamation point "!" To link people to communities in a way that won't take them away from their home instance. Likewise you can use @ for users.
Example: !eli5@lemmy.blahaj.zone Or: @Soullioness@lemmy.world
It even auto fills when you type
Edit: might be wrong about it linking universally.
Active enough considering the scale of the community.