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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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/[email protected], but someone from a.org ends up on a.com/c/[email protected]?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With Lemmy it's [email protected]
From kbin it's the same but with an @ instead of !.
IDK how others have search set up. There may not be a way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure that's correct. When I click your first link, it's going to https://kbin.social/m/[[email protected]](/c/[email protected]). What OP wants is a way to post the link and (in my case) go to https://melly.0x-ia.moe/c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you mean to link that specifically to kbin?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Just an example, but I used this sub after editing my comment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well from what it looks like, on my instance, is that your [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) is linking to https://kbin.social/m/[[email protected]](/c/[email protected]).

I think what OP is after, is a way to make it link to the reader's own instanced version of [email protected]

I was under the impression that the exclamation mark was designed to do exactly that: take everything after the ! and interpret the [email protected] into whatever the user's instance uses for links (m for kbin, c for lemmy).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some day there will be a standard link style... for now it seems like a huge mess :'D The ! doesn't work on kbin (for me, at least), nor do links with c/ where we use m/, but the @-link does, which is neat considering I'd not found any short link style that did until seeing that one :'D Seems like others think the !-link is the thing to do, some give absolute links, some try other things besides. Growing pains, teething issues... might as well say "wheee" while the ride's still bumpy ^.^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did some investigation into this in https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/199, but stopped short of actually fixing it or spinning up an instance to investigate further, as just didn't really have the time and energy (and haven't yet).

Fixing the ! links probably isn't too hard, but I'm not one to try anything without being able to run it. And really there should be an alias for /c/. I haven't used Symfony so can't tell if it's as easy as I hoped. I've had countless times where I thought something would be easy but it turned out hard and vice versa...