cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15953
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/[email protected])
[My User](/u/[email protected])
You’re welcome!
Thanks for this post, links have been confusing me. And actually I’m finding the opposite of what you said - that first link (https… etc) works fine for me in Jerboa. But the others try to open in a browser and fail. Very weird.
If you don’t mind, I’m going to try testing some links here:
/C/[email protected]
/c/[email protected]
Football
Football
https://lemmy.world/c/football
Very weird - all of them open in a browser, even the one that seems to have the same format as the OP (and that one opens in Jerboa). Hmmm…
I think the universal link only changes the community to your instance, but not much more than that. If the community isn’t already connected to your instance, it won’t work, but once someone connects it, it will work I think, wish there was just one easy way, but [email protected] is probably already connected, so that’s why that one works and not the others. May be a problem, since most of these are new communities, so I’m just going to use both ways for now, until there’s a better way