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Square Singer@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.org · 3 years ago

What's the correct way to link to a community on a different instance?

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What's the correct way to link to a community on a different instance?

Square Singer@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.org · 3 years ago
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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/x@y.org, but someone from a.org ends up on a.com/c/x@y.org?

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  • trashhalo@beehaw.org
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    3 years ago

    This seems to be a good topic to plug my GitHub issue that would make !technology@beehaw.org correct clickable links with no extra effort on the users part. I even broke down how to implement that change in the codebase!

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1297

    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
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      A “link community” button in the formatting bar below the comment box would be ideal.

  • crashspeeder@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    3 years ago

    The best way is to use relative links, such as !technology@beehaw.org

    What I did there was simply [!technology@beehaw.org](/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@my_site.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.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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      So if I copy the pink text it should work if I understand correctly?

      !technology@beehaw.org

      It does, thank you!

    • justgohomealready@lemmy.pt
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      3 years ago

      In my phone, for some reason, Jerboa crashes when I tap your link.

      • crashspeeder@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        That’s a known bug in Jerboa. It’s already been reported and the dev acknowledged it.

    • WorseDoughnut 🍩@vlemmy.net
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      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.

      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kbin-link/

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    With Lemmy it’s !technology@beehaw.org (do Lemmy users see this as “!technology”?)
    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 way

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      I’m not sure that’s correct. When I click your first link, it’s going to https://kbin.social/m/!technology@beehaw.org. What OP wants is a way to post the link and (in my case) go to https://melly.0x-ia.moe/c/technology@beehaw.org

  • vacuumpizzas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 years ago

    Relative links seem to be the best way to accomplish what you’re looking to do. So, in your example, it’s /c/x@y.org.

    Doing it live

    Reference: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6063

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