PSA: How to link users & communities so it doesn't break for other instances (lemmy.reckless.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all!

So, I'm assuming everyone has seen links like https://beehaw.org/c/news and clicked through to find it doesn't work right because it's a different site (I'm assuming a different instance here).

Well, I just stumbled across an interesting feature: if you enter a link in the following format, it works for everyone regardless of instance of origin:

[News](/c/[email protected])

News

[My User](/u/[email protected])

My User

You're welcome!

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sorry OP, but your links don't work for me. Reading this on kbin and all your links are 404'ing.

https://i.imgur.com/sQD9oxk.png

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe you could bring it up with the Kbin devs? I'm sure it wouldn't be too crazily difficult to have it work similarly over there. Just need to swap /c/ out for a /m/. Probably similar needed over here to translate /m/ to /c/ too.

this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023

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