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PSA: How to link users & communities so it doesn't break for other instances (lemmy.reckless.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi all!

So, I'm assuming everyone has seen links like https://beehaw.org/c/news and clicked through to find it doesn't work right because it's a different site (I'm assuming a different instance here).

Well, I just stumbled across an interesting feature: if you enter a link in the following format, it works for everyone regardless of instance of origin:

[News](/c/news@beehaw.org)

News

[My User](/u/barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev)

My User

You're welcome!

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[–] TauZero@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Ok so linking communities and usernames works reliably for me on the web this way:

News - [News](/c/news@beehaw.org)
PriorProject - [PriorProject](/u/PriorProject@lemmy.world)

But how do I universally link a post or comment? The comment ids are different across instances! This comment by @PriorProject@lemmy.world for example has a canonical URL (colored pentagram icon):

https://lemmy.world/comment/18453

And the link to it on my instance (chainlink icon):

https://mander.xyz/comment/240478

None of these work:

comment - [comment](/comment/18453@lemmy.world) - 404
comment - [comment](/comment/18453) - wrong comment for me comment - [comment](/comment/240478) - works for me but not you
comment - [comment](https://lemmy.world/comment/18453) - works but cannot reply since not logged in