Is there a way to make instance-agnostic links? (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by TomViolence@lemmy.one to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] CoderKat@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Kbin needs /m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml (domain is important) or a bit simpler is with an @ symbol in front: @asklemmy (note: the domain is here but kbin currently renders it without the domain -- that needs to be changed as it has potential to confuse and mislead)

Downside to the /m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml format is that it doesn't currently auto linkify. Gotta do [/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml](/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml) (/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)

Hopefully kbin soon fixes the !asklemmy@lemmy.ml syntax. It's currently broken. Once fixed, that should work for everyone.

[-] aebrer@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Weirdly enough on kbin.social for me /m/asklemmy.ml link in the post worked for me

[-] jrubal1462@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I'm the problem. As feared I fudged it up as I was rushing to type it up on my phone. As @CoderKat mentioned, the problem with typing it out as /m instead of using @, is that you have to manually enter the visible text in [ ] and the hyperlink in ( ). I got the hyperlink correct and beefed it on the visible text.

this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023

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