42

On reddit if I wanted to refer to a subreddit I'd type /r/oneOrangeBraincell/ and that would get turned into a link. What's the lemmy equivalent?

top 15 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 19 points 1 year ago

The most commonly used format is [!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld) (the exclamation point is important). For something like 90% of Lemmy - browser and apps - that should open the community in your home instance when clicked. Only one of the iOS apps (Memmy, Mlem? I don't have an iPhone sadly) had issues with this format.

[-] bluefirex@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately Memmy doesn't support it (yet) but Voyager does :)

[-] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 14 points 1 year ago

There are several ways to link to a community. If your instance has had someone previously search for the community, then they will all work. If this hasn’t happened (usually because your instance is small or new) then there can be problems with the “shorthand” method that begins with an !. I’ve written a full explanation in this article at the Community Search Tips community. It lists the drawbacks and advantages of each approach that I’m aware of.

[-] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 15 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !communitysearchtips@lemmy.ninja

[-] phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

all you need to do is refresh the page after the error message appears and you're golden, no big deal

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Would be cool if they added a placeholder page that said search in progress or something

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Great article!

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

!fediverse@lemmy.world will work anywhere

[-] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 2 points 1 year ago

That is not true. It will fail with a cryptic error message on all instances that have never searched for fediverse@lemmy.world, and it will fail for Mastodon users. Those are just the ones we’ve discovered so far.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 5 points 1 year ago

On Voyager, I need to tap it, get the cryptic error message, then refresh, and it works.

Annoying, but for free alpha software, I'm not going to complain too much.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Just refresh or go back and click the link again and it should work. It's only when it's the first time accessing. At least for me.

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Weirdly enough, on Kbin, if I click that link, it loads me that instance's feed within Kbin. But if I middle-click that same link to open it in a new tab, it opens on the original instance's page, instead.

As if we didn't have enough confusing little oddities on Kbin as it was, lol

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Wow really?? It functions as expected for me. I'm not on kbin though

this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
42 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

28301 readers
109 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS