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[โ€“] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are backslashes to escape the parentheses. But apparently the backslashes just get replaced with forward slashes.

They aren't necessary when posting on Lemmy. Clicking the hyperlink in your comment goes nowhere, but if you write the original link normally, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network) , the link works.

I remember Reddit used to break links that ended in parentheses. Thankfully, Lemmy doesn't suffer from the same issue!