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/news@beehaw.org)
[My User](/u/barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev)
You’re welcome!
If you start typing ! and community name, it starts autofilling matches (at least in browser). So I’d assume the ! for coms and @ for users would be the official way, and I’ve seen admins use it, but it’s not ideal and kinda inconsistent. Maybe the devs will clean it up officially.
Frankly I’d be fine just doing c/ and u/ like like on Reddit with automatically changing to links, just with @ for instance.