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)
[My User](/u/barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev)
You’re welcome!
There are an irksome number of ways to express a community:
The one that gets advertised in the sidebar is !lemmy@lemmy.ml. I’d love to see a canonical format established that has a superset of the useful behaviors of the non-canonical representations.
Edit: Most of those don’t get hotlinked automatically. Does a bang-prefixed link do anything useful (no it doesn’t)? And you pointed out c-prefixed does get hotlinked and work.
Edit2: As commenters below note, the behavior varies between web-ui and jerboa. 🤮