Please teach me how to do this and is it anymore complicated to do on a smartphone?
Here is the page that tells you how to do most of the formatting available in Fluther (not all).
And to show you what that looks like with added spaces (which make the formatting not work), it would look like this:
” Here is the page ” : http://www.fluther.com/help/formatting/
I have no idea how to grab URLs for copy-and-paste with a smartphone. I guess it can’t be too difficult, but that’s the main trick.
Exactly as @CWOTUS has described, just remove all of the spaces. I have no clue how to do it on a smartphone, though. I still have a plain old dumbphone.