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Lemmy needs an instance-aware way to link to communities (and posts and comments) (derp.foo)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by irdc@derp.foo to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Hi all,

I’ve been observing and participating in this community for about a week now. I’m liking it so far, but one thing I’m really missing is a way to link to other Lemmy content in a way that’s instance-aware.

For example, if I were to want to link to !risa@startrek.website, I’d link to https://startrek.website/c/risa. But then I’d end up at a Lemmy instance where I don’t have an account; I’d really prefer to be redirected to https://derp.foo/c/risa@startrek.website.

So here’s my proposal: create a central Lemmy redirection service where people can set their instance (in a cookie). The idea would be that people can link to, say, https://example.com/c/risa@startrek.website, and be ensured us lemmings end up on an instance where we can actually post.

Linking to posts and comments should ideally be part of this as well but whould involve a little more work.

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[–] irdc@derp.foo 1 points 1 year ago

That’s (probably, doesn’t work on my 0.17.4 instance) true, but it doesn’t work when creating links elsewhere (say you want to link to Lemmy from a certain site starting with an ‘r’).