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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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[–] d3Xt3r@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] argv_minus_one 4 points 1 year ago

This trick only works on Lemmy, because it relies on Lemmy's URL structure. Kbin uses a different URL structure.

[–] ADHDefy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same, breaking on kbin :(