• @fuboEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    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/.

    • @el_dosoEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Whoa, that’s so cool!

      And, man, that’s a bummer.

      • @fuboEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        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.

    • SanguineParEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      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.

      • @fuboEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        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.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•2 years ago

    Edit Sorry I misunderstood. I believe you can link the community as a whole, but posts I don’t believe you can.

    There isn’t a way at the moment. Solutions to this are being discussed on Github

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

    Edit 2

    Maybe you can’t link a community either, I could have sworn I have seen it done but that could have just happened to be for my instance.

    Edit 3

    My testing please ignore :)

    Test1

  • @melonpunkEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    I’d like to know too. I was hoping it would be something simple like !community@host.com which would resolve for everyone. Didn’t work when I tried it, though I might not have done it correctly.

    EDIT: I guess I could try again here [email protected]

    EDIT2: Nope: That link goes to https://lemmy.world/post/[email protected] for me, which is not valid.

  • PerhyteEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Once your Lemmy web frontend upgrades to version 0.18, the following should all auto-link with no extra syntax:

    These should then all link to the instance you’re currently on.

    Note: because this is implemented in the frontend and does not change the underlying data, other Fediverse clients will not show these the same unless they also implement this themselves.

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

    Yes it would be very convenient, right now if I’m recommending a community I simply write out the URL manually to make sure it routes via the respective user’s instance first.

  • jrubal1462
    1•2 years ago

    I thought it worked if you just linked /c/[email protected]
    With the only caveat being that users on kbin will need /m/asklemmy.ml
    With the only caveat being that users on kbin will need /m/[email protected]

    I would normally test the crap out of these before posting since I really don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m on my phone and mostly busy at the moment. Sorry if it doesn’t work.

    • CoderKat
      1•2 years ago

      Kbin needs /m/[email protected] (domain is important) or a bit simpler is with an @ symbol in front: @asklemmy (note: the domain is here but kbin currently renders it without the domain – that needs to be changed as it has potential to confuse and mislead)

      Downside to the /m/[email protected] format is that it doesn’t currently auto linkify. Gotta do [/m/[email protected]](/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml) (/m/[email protected])

      Hopefully kbin soon fixes the [email protected] syntax. It’s currently broken. Once fixed, that should work for everyone.

      • aebrer
        0•2 years ago

        Weirdly enough on kbin.social for me /m/asklemmy.ml link in the post worked for me

        • jrubal1462
          1•2 years ago

          I’m the problem. As feared I fudged it up as I was rushing to type it up on my phone. As @CoderKat mentioned, the problem with typing it out as /m instead of using @, is that you have to manually enter the visible text in [ ] and the hyperlink in ( ). I got the hyperlink correct and beefed it on the visible text.