diff --git a/src/app/components/invite-user-prompt/InviteUserPrompt.tsx b/src/app/components/invite-user-prompt/InviteUserPrompt.tsx
index 4e110be41..a0b76d10f 100644
--- a/src/app/components/invite-user-prompt/InviteUserPrompt.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/invite-user-prompt/InviteUserPrompt.tsx
@@ -51,9 +51,10 @@ import { useMatrixClient } from '../../hooks/useMatrixClient';
 import { BreakWord } from '../../styles/Text.css';
 import { useAlive } from '../../hooks/useAlive';
 import { copyToClipboard } from '../../utils/dom';
-import { getMatrixToRoom } from '../../plugins/matrix-to';
 import { getViaServers } from '../../plugins/via-servers';
 import { useModalStyle } from '../../hooks/useModalStyle';
+import { useLotusShareBase } from '../../hooks/useLotusLinkBase';
+import { getLotusRoomPermalink, getLotusSpacePermalink } from '../../plugins/lotus-permalink';
 
 const SEARCH_OPTIONS: UseAsyncSearchOptions = {
   limit: 1000,
@@ -75,10 +76,14 @@ export function InviteUserPrompt({ room, requestClose }: InviteUserProps) {
   const [linkCopied, setLinkCopied] = useState(false);
   const [showQr, setShowQr] = useState(false);
 
+  // [Gitea #285] A link into this deployment; matrix.to can't open Lotus Chat.
+  const lotusBase = useLotusShareBase();
   const inviteUrl = (() => {
     const roomIdOrAlias = getCanonicalAliasOrRoomId(mx, room.roomId);
     const viaServers = isRoomAlias(roomIdOrAlias) ? undefined : getViaServers(room);
-    return getMatrixToRoom(roomIdOrAlias, viaServers);
+    return room.isSpaceRoom()
+      ? getLotusSpacePermalink(lotusBase, roomIdOrAlias, viaServers)
+      : getLotusRoomPermalink(lotusBase, roomIdOrAlias, undefined, viaServers);
   })();
 
   const handleCopyLink = () => {
diff --git a/src/app/features/common-settings/general/RoomShareInvite.tsx b/src/app/features/common-settings/general/RoomShareInvite.tsx
index f37bdf100..f3d0c3aa9 100644
Binary files a/src/app/features/common-settings/general/RoomShareInvite.tsx and b/src/app/features/common-settings/general/RoomShareInvite.tsx differ