For example, this comment links to another community on another instance, but when clicked on, you’re not actually able to interact with anything on that community, because you’re suddenly not logged in.

It’s doesn’t function like linking to a subreddit, and I understand that that’s because of federation, but is there a better way of doing this? It seems… very stupid that linking to a page would suddenly “log you out” for all intents and purposes, while searching that same community wouldn’t.

Does this make sense?

    • Gormadt
      14•2 years ago

      I’m not sure what I expected clicking those links in Jerboa, but it’s true they do crash Jerboa when clicked

      • @NotInTheFace
        25•2 years ago

        Reading that comment, reading this comment, still clicking on the link with Jerboa:

          • @[email protected]
            2•2 years ago

            They kind of work, you can see below that the content is not from those communities. I have to change the sort method to get the content, but the sort method is broken for me as I’m on lemmy.one which is not on v18:

            • Yote.zip
              1•2 years ago

              Whoops, I get that too. Refreshing the page loads the correct content for me. Clicking those links previously crashed Jerboa iirc so at least it’s a step in the right direction!

      • Justin
        2•2 years ago

        Those links don’t crash my jerboa. 0.18.0-rc and 0.0.35.

      • Tarte
        1•2 years ago

        The feature exists in the fediverse, but I don’t know if or how it’s implemented in Lemmy. I’m using Kbin and there is a button called “copy url to fediverse” (for comments and posts/threads):

        Your comment: https://feddit.de/comment/508518

        This post/thread: https://lemm.ee/post/288327

        So basically, each entry has a unique ID that you can use to build a link.

        • @[email protected]
          3•2 years ago

          Well yes but that second link takes me out of my instance and I can’t interact. That’s the point of the question: can I link to an individual submission on another instance without leaving my own instance so that I can interact?

            • @[email protected]
              1•2 years ago

              More likely I’m not being clear enough. These links all have an instance hard coded into them so I can’t easily share them with people outside that instance. Right? Or am I not seeing something? What OP and I are looking for is a way to post a link to an individual submission on any instance that anyone can click on, regardless of their home instance, and be able to interact (this presumes their home instance and the target instance are federated, obviously).

              • Tarte
                1•2 years ago

                Oh, now I get it! Thanks for staying with me and explaining.

                That would be a nice feature indeed.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 years ago

      I can confirm this link style works in the iOS Memmy App. As well as links formatted like “!community@instance”.

    • Hanhula
      1•2 years ago

      Hilariously, neither of these work on Kbin either (probably because Kbin uses m instead of c).