this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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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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[โ€“] jonah@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

The only problem is that if your instance doesn't know about that community yet, it'll just 404, you still have to search for it first because visiting the link doesn't make your instance fetch the community yet.

This should still be the default behavior when it autofills a community link though, I hope they make this change ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] d3Xt3r@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry OP, but your links don't work for me. Reading this on kbin and all your links are 404'ing.

https://i.imgur.com/sQD9oxk.png

[โ€“] Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe you could bring it up with the Kbin devs? I'm sure it wouldn't be too crazily difficult to have it work similarly over there. Just need to swap /c/ out for a /m/. Probably similar needed over here to translate /m/ to /c/ too.

The devs have said they'd like to make this happen more automatically, but until then this is a great tip!