This also works for any links on shields.io, but I didn’t notice the Lemmy & Mastodon links before. Please share anything else you discover while experimenting. I’ll edit in more tips as people find them
Lemmy:
You can put the image markdown inside a link markdown
- Regular link:
[link_text](LINK_URL) - Image link:
 - All together:
[](LINK_URL) - Page to generate image: https://shields.io/badges/lemmy
Make sure to drop the domain from the link URL to make the button universal:
- for
https://lemmy.ca/c/canada, use/c/canada.ca - This will render with the correct domain in the user’s browser (ex.
https://example.com/c/canada@lemmy.ca)
For example:
[](/c/Canada@lemmy.ca)
example post BEFORE: https://lemmy.ca/post/2890824
example post AFTER: https://lemmy.ca/post/2530982 (modified a few of the links)
Mastodon:
It’s listed on shields.io (link: https://shields.io/badges/mastodon-follow), but I had trouble getting it working. I’ll edit in instructions once I figure it out.
This is a cool feature and I like the way it looks. Is it possible to have it always link you using your current instance?
I haven’t played around with it much, and I was hoping this post would help figure some of these things out as people experiment
So far I could only get the hardlinks working, I think links like this (!canada@lemmy.ca) are handled by the frontend?
Update: @cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me fixed it, you just need to drop the domain from the link
for example
[](/c/Canada@lemmy.ca)