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What's the correct way to link to a community on a different instance? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by squaresinger@feddit.de to c/technology

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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?

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[–] crashspeeder@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] justgohomealready@lemmy.pt 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my phone, for some reason, Jerboa crashes when I tap your link.

[–] crashspeeder@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

That's a known bug in Jerboa. It's already been reported and the dev acknowledged it.

[–] WorseDoughnut@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

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.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kbin-link/

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So if I copy the pink text it should work if I understand correctly?

!technology@beehaw.org

It does, thank you!