I’m not sure if that link is supposed to take a user somewhere, but clicking the bot’s link from within Connect doesn’t work. The leading “!” Is not highlighted in blue, so that’s probably why it doesn’t work.

The link in the parent comment does work within Connect and takes me to that community.

Following up on this, I’m hoping that some journalism organization sets up a “default” instance for verified journists to post from. It was nice having verified Twitter instances for this purpose.

That’s the app I used exclusively. Have you found a Lemmy app that is similar? I’ve tried Jerboa, Connect and Liftoff, but I’m still looking for something comparable to BaconReader.