• Hedup@lemm.ee
    9·
    2 years ago

    These links take users to the original instances. Which is annoying, because they are not logged in in those. We should start to get in the habit of posting links like this:

    [c/cat@lemmy.world](c/cat@lemmy.world)

    [c/cats@sh.itjust.works](c/cats@sh.itjust.works)

    c/cat@lemmy.world

    c/cats@sh.itjust.works

    Which will take the reader to the community’s reflection in their own instance where they can subscribe, upvote etc.

    Hopefully we get tools or updates that makes this less cumbersome.

    • pruwyben
      2·
      2 years ago

      Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately in Jerboa it seems like this form of link just crashes the app lol.

      Edit: this might be because these communities aren’t on my instance.

      Edit 2: these links seem to send me to [instance]/comment/c/[community], e.g, https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/c/cats@sh.itjust.works, which doeesn’t work because the “/comment” part shouldn’t be there. Not sure what’s up with that.

      • Hedup@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 years ago

        Hey! I figured it out. I had mistake in my syntax. There must be a forward slash before “c” in the link address. Like this:

        [cats](/c/cats@sh.itjust.works)
       ^

        cats

        I was omitting that forward slash, because you could do that on reddit. I hope they fix that to work here as well. Actually simply writing the link like this c/cats@sh.itjust.works in regular text should create a link.

      • Hedup@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 years ago

        Edit: this might be because these communities aren’t on my instance.

        No, I noticed the same thing happens to me. Sorry, I should’ve checked those links before posting. So weird that it happens like that! The “comment” is no where to be found in my syntax.

        [c/cats@sh.itjust.works](c/cats@sh.itjust.works)

        Maybe the title messes things up? I’ll try this syntax.

        [cats](c/cats@sh.itjust.works)

        cats

        EDIT: no, it still doesn’t work