Is there a way to make a link to a community of a foreign instance that opens on the instance of the user that clicks on it?
For example, I would like to make a link to [email protected] that, when a user of bar.com clicks on it, opens https://bar.com/c/[email protected] instead of https://foo.com/c/some_community.
If it’s not possible, don’t you think it would be convenient?
Yes, you can do this using a relative URL!
Here’s an example.
Here’s how I wrote it:
[Here's an example.](/c/[email protected])Because this URL doesn’t have a protocol or a domain, your browser fills those in from the URL of the page you’re on when you see it. Since that’s on your local Lemmy instance, you’ll see a link to [email protected] on that instance.
Also: When you’re looking at a Lemmy comment, if you don’t know how the author wrote the markup for it, you can use the “view source” button underneath the “…” menu.
Note: These links will NOT work between Lemmy and Kbin, because Kbin uses
/m/instead of/c/.Whoa, that’s so cool!
And, man, that’s a bummer.
Trickery using URL features, like this, will work from clients that act like a web browser. Other clients may have problems with it. There should probably be a standard syntax for “a link to community X hosted on instance Y” that all clients can learn to support.
Just FYI, this link…
…causes the Jerboa app to crash. I think it’s a known issue and hopefully one that gets sorted, but just wanted to warn others.
Wow, good thing to point out.
Relative URLs should work straightforwardly for a UI that runs in a browser, but yeah, I can imagine a custom app doesn’t know what domain or even protocol to associate with them.