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Is there a seamless way of linking to other instances? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by tymon@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, this comment links to another community on another instance, but when clicked on, you're not actually able to interact with anything on that community, because you're suddenly not logged in.

It's doesn't function like linking to a subreddit, and I understand that that's because of federation, but is there a better way of doing this? It seems... very stupid that linking to a page would suddenly "log you out" for all intents and purposes, while searching that same community wouldn't.

Does this make sense?

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[–] PsychoticBananaSplit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This works on browsers but crashes Jerboa for some reason:

Ask Lemmy

Lemmy World

[Ask Lemmy](/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)

[Lemmy World](/c/Lemmyworld@lemmy.world)

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what I expected clicking those links in Jerboa, but it's true they do crash Jerboa when clicked

[–] NotInTheFace@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading that comment, reading this comment, still clicking on the link with Jerboa:

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They work for me on Jerboa 0.35!

[–] NoTime@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They kind of work, you can see below that the content is not from those communities. I have to change the sort method to get the content, but the sort method is broken for me as I'm on lemmy.one which is not on v18:

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Whoops, I get that too. Refreshing the page loads the correct content for me. Clicking those links previously crashed Jerboa iirc so at least it's a step in the right direction!

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 1 year ago

Those links don't crash my jerboa. 0.18.0-rc and 0.0.35.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But is there a way to link to individual submissions on other instances?

[–] Tarte@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The feature exists in the fediverse, but I don't know if or how it's implemented in Lemmy. I'm using Kbin and there is a button called "copy url to fediverse" (for comments and posts/threads):

Your comment: https://feddit.de/comment/508518

This post/thread: https://lemm.ee/post/288327

So basically, each entry has a unique ID and home instance that you can use to build a link to the "original".

[–] Hanhula@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hilariously, neither of these work on Kbin either (probably because Kbin uses m instead of c).

[–] bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org 1 points 1 year ago

I can confirm this link style works in the iOS Memmy App. As well as links formatted like “!community@instance”.