Is there a way to make a link to a community of a foreign instance that opens on the instance of the user that clicks on it?
For example, I would like to make a link to !some_community@foo.com that, when a user of bar.com clicks on it, opens https://bar.com/c/some_community@foo.com instead of https://foo.com/c/some_community.
If it’s not possible, don’t you think it would be convenient?
- boomboxnation ( @boomboxnation@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
That’s what this does:
[Some text here](/c/community@instance.here)
Tap the ‘more’ skinny hamburger menu just
abovebelow this message to ‘view source’ of the below:blah blah blah links to asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Actually…better, here is one for an instance that is neither yours or the one you posted into:
That’s perfect! Thank you :)
- Edo78 ( @Edo78@feddit.it ) English1•1 year ago
On my instance ( feddit.it ) I see two broken links:
both return
404: couldnt_find_post
- boomboxnation ( @boomboxnation@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Doh! I forgot the /c/, correcting.
- Edo78 ( @Edo78@feddit.it ) English1•1 year ago
sorry, still nope … now they are https://feddit.it/comment/asklemmy@lemmy.ml and still 404
- gingerman ( @gingerman@lemmy.ca ) English1•1 year ago
Should these links work? I’m viewing this thread from Lemmy.ca and both give me a 404 error. When testing with jerboa, the app crashes
- Willie ( @Willie@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Both of those links send me back to this post on lemmy.ml, through kbin, so if that is the end goal, then it worked.
- jrubal1462 ( @jrubal1462@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
I thought it worked if you just linked /c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
With the only caveat being that users on kbin will need /m/asklemmy.mlI would normally test the crap out of these before posting since I really don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m on my phone and mostly busy at the moment. Sorry if it doesn’t work.
- fennec ( @fennec@feddit.de ) English1•1 year ago
Yes it would be very convenient, right now if I’m recommending a community I simply write out the URL manually to make sure it routes via the respective user’s instance first.
- Catsrules ( @Catsrules@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
Edit 6 Cleaning up post.
You can link the community as a whole, but posts you can’t. Solutions to posts are being discussed on Github
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048
This is how to link communities.
[My text here](/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)
For example if you want cat@lemmy.world you would type this
[Cat pics on Lemmy.world](/c/cat@lemmy.world)
Equals
Or aww@lemmy.ml you would type this.
[Aww on Lemmy.ml](/c/aww@lemmy.ml)
Equals
You need to have the /c/ or it won’t work. Don’t put the ! or it won’t work.