I don’t know how to crosspost properly.
I think this is a serious design flaw. If you agree please upvote the post on lemmy.ml community for visibility
Yeah this seems like a pretty huge oversight. I’d file an issue on GitHub ASAP.
I hadn’t even come across it yet but holy hell that’s a scammer/malicious actors paradise.
On Kbin’s end the thread ID is
57540
and the appended text is simply a hint to what is on the other side of the link (i.e. it doesn’t change anything). This is standard practice and you see it a lot across the web
Try this: https://kbin.social/m/sysadmin@lemmy.world/t/57540/THLPFWYHYULHDTPUYWHDUYPHWUDUYWHUYDWHUYWHPDStackOverflow had the same feature until people started abusing it for SEO. After that, they decided to remove the option.
You could have done that on reddit as well