Say I want to link to community x on instance y.org. How do I post this so that someone from instance z.org will end up at z.com/c/[email protected], but someone from a.org ends up on a.com/c/[email protected]?
The best way is to use relative links, such as [email protected]
What I did there was simply
[[email protected]](/c/technology@beehaw.org). This link doesn’t start with the protocol and site, but instead assumes the current site, and starts with/c/my_comunity.tld, meaning it will be routed to the same instance.This will probably not work for those on Kbin, since their communities (magazines) don’t start with
/c/, but rather with/m/. If anyone knows a good way for this to work for both, I’d be glad to adopt that myself going forward.So if I copy the pink text it should work if I understand correctly?
It does, thank you!
For kbin at least, there’s currently a Firefox add-on that adds an icon next to any full or relative links that sends them to the corresponding kbin magazine version of the lemme community.
In my phone, for some reason, Jerboa crashes when I tap your link.
That’s a known bug in Jerboa. It’s already been reported and the dev acknowledged it.
This seems to be a good topic to plug my GitHub issue that would make [email protected] correct clickable links with no extra effort on the users part. I even broke down how to implement that change in the codebase!
A “link community” button in the formatting bar below the comment box would be ideal.
With Lemmy it’s [email protected]
From kbin it’s the same but with an @. @technology (@technology@ beehaw.org)
IDK how others have search set up. There may not be a wayI’m not sure that’s correct. When I click your first link, it’s going to
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]. What OP wants is a way to post the link and (in my case) go tohttps://melly.0x-ia.moe/c/[email protected]Did you mean to link that specifically to kbin?
No. Just an example, but I used this sub after editing my comment
Well from what it looks like, on my instance, is that your
!technology@beehaw.orgis linking tohttps://kbin.social/m/[email protected].I think what OP is after, is a way to make it link to the reader’s own instanced version of
technology@beehaw.orgI was under the impression that the exclamation mark was designed to do exactly that: take everything after the
!and interpret thecommunity@instance.exampleinto whatever the user’s instance uses for links (m for kbin, c for lemmy).
Relative links seem like the best way to accomplish what you’re looking to do: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6063
Relative links seem to be the best way to accomplish what you’re looking to do. So, in your example, it’s
/c/x.org.Reference: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6063
Took this from the sidebar at newcommunities
[link text](/c/community@instance.com) This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won’tTo my knowledge this doesn’t work if a user in your instance hasn’t previously searched for the community
