What's the correct way to link to a community on a different instance?
What's the correct way to link to a community on a different instance?
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?
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!
A "link community" button in the formatting bar below the comment box would be ideal.
With Lemmy it's !technology@beehaw.org
From kbin it's the same but with an @ instead of !. @technology
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/!technology@beehaw.org. What OP wants is a way to post the link and (in my case) go tohttps://melly.0x-ia.moe/c/technology@beehaw.org
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.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.
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.
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
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.Reference: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6063