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!
You don’t have to create a separate account to participate.
If you click the “News” and “My User” links above, they open content from beehaw.org and reckless.dev inside whatever Lemmy server you’re curerntly using. Your account is on lemmy.world, so I’m assuming that’s where you’re browsing. Note the first URL becomes
https://lemmy.world/c/news@beehaw.org.Now view this post on beehaw.org and look at News link. It’s
https://beehaw.org/c/news@beehaw.orginstead.This post is about how to format links to communities and accounts so they’re transformed that way.