If you want pretty links, you can add badges when linking to Lemmy communities or Mastodon accounts
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: 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/[email protected] - This will render with the correct domain in the user’s browser (ex.
https://example.com/c/[email protected])
For example:
<span style="color:#323232;">[![](https://img.shields.io/lemmy/canada%40lemmy.ca?label=canada%40lemmy.ca&color=%239e090a&link=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com
</span><span style="color:#323232;">)](/c/[email protected])
</span>
example post BEFORE: lemmy.ca/post/2890824
example post AFTER: lemmy.ca/post/2530982 (modified a few of the links)
Mastodon:
It’s listed on shields.io (link: shields.io/badges/mastodon-follow), but I had trouble getting it working. I’ll edit in instructions once I figure it out.