• fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)

    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 !asklemmy@lemmy.ml 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/.

  • jrubal1462@kbin.social
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    I thought it worked if you just linked /c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
    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/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

    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.

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      1 year ago

      Kbin needs /m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml (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/asklemmy@lemmy.ml format is that it doesn’t currently auto linkify. Gotta do [/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml](/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml) (/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)

      Hopefully kbin soon fixes the !asklemmy@lemmy.ml syntax. It’s currently broken. Once fixed, that should work for everyone.

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          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.

  • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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    1 year 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.

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    My testing please ignore :)

    Test

  • fennec@feddit.de
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    1 year 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.

  • Perhyte@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.