Is there a way to make a link to a community of a foreign instance that opens on the instance of the user that clicks on it?
For example, I would like to make a link to [email protected] that, when a user of bar.com clicks on it, opens https://bar.com/c/[email protected] instead of https://foo.com/c/some_community.
If it’s not possible, don’t you think it would be convenient?
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 [email protected] 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/.