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Because - believe it or not - you still earn reputation on Meta; it is just not shown and the main site's reputation is shown instead. Each upvote on an answer counts as +10 towards these badges, and each upvote on a question as +5, just like they would do on the main site.
If you track the Epic or Legendary badge in your (Meta) profile and click on the ...
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I'm not sure how this would be possible. Apple owns .apple and I doubt they're going to give us a subdomain. Also, I'd presume the main site is more worthwhile for a .apple subdomain than just the meta site.
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The code that detects and draws the linked section executes a bit after a post is submitted, so you may not see that field immediately upon posting a new question or submitting an edit to a question/answer.
The posts you have indicated all have a linked section at present, so perhaps you had a cached copy of those pages or viewed them before the code to ...
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