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

submitted 1 year ago by Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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/news@beehaw.org)

News

[My User](/u/barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev)

My User

You're welcome!

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[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There are an irksome number of ways to express a community:

!lemmy@lemmy.ml
https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy
/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
Is that all of them?

The one that gets advertised in the sidebar is !lemmy@lemmy.ml. I'd love to see a canonical format established that has a superset of the useful behaviors of the non-canonical representations.

Edit: Most of those don't get hotlinked automatically. Does a bang-prefixed link do anything useful (no it doesn't)? And you pointed out c-prefixed does get hotlinked and work.

Edit2: As commenters below note, the behavior varies between web-ui and jerboa. 🤮

[–] Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can confirm bang-prefixed is broken, c-prefixed works. At least from the website UI.

[–] Kurt@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy is the only on that works for me on Jerboa. Even then it kicks me over to Firefox. Cc priorproject@lemmy.world

[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@lemmy
[@]lemmy[@]lemmy[.]ml

Incidentally, this is how you'd find and follow it from, say, Mastodon or Calckey.