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Most of us are Reddit refugees, and probably clicking more random links than we ever did before on websites we've never seen before. This whole experience feels like the old internet, but also throws up insane red flags with a modern internet perspective. What are the cybersecurity weaknesses we should all be looking for, and what are the best practices?

Here's my reason for posting this. As I search for new communities across instances to follow, I sometimes end up clicking a link and I'm no longer logged in. In the corner, that could be a Sign In link or it could be phishing. It's likely due to me not understanding how to properly navigate this system, but there's nothing stopping someone from setting up a sight like this as far as I know.

Thoughts?

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[-] Artemis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Do you mind giving a short explainer of proper link formatting? I was struggling with this just a little bit ago

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you link directly to the full URL (including the instance), you'll take anyone who clicks it to that instance, and they won't be logged in. This is usually not what you want. Example: https://pawb.social/c/tech - This link will take you to my instance.

If you remove the instance URL, and just leave /c/communityname@instance - for example, /c/tech@pawb.social - the link will still take you to the community, but you'll still be on your instance. This is usually desirable.

Basically, instance -> community = link to that instance. Community -> instance = link to the community in whatever instance the user clicks it in.

You can also use ! instead of /c/ - I think this might work better for Kbin users (since they use /m/ instead of /c/ - can't verify this). In that case, it'd be: !tech@pawb.social

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I won't get tired of posting this everywhere it applies :D

I made this userscript, which rewrites all links everywhere (not only on Lemmy) to always point to your home instance. So the link in your comment actually looks like this to me:

i.e. even though you tried to link to your instance, my script rewrote your link back to my instance so it's working fine :D

But of course I can still hover over the icon to see how your link originally looked:

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 7 points 1 year ago

I Have to say that @Azzu@lemm.ee 's script is fantastic. I've been using for a few days now (I have another bug report for you@Azzu@lemm.ee )

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