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What's the correct way to link to a community on a different instance? (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by squaresinger@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Say I want to link to community x on instance y.org. How do I post this so that someone from instance z.org will end up at z.com/c/x@y.org, but someone from a.org ends up on a.com/c/x@y.org?

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[–] Shortcake@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

With Lemmy it's !technology@beehaw.org
From kbin it's the same but with an @. @technology (@technology@ beehaw.org)
IDK how others have search set up. There may not be a way

[–] speff@melly.0x-ia.moe 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure that's correct. When I click your first link, it's going to https://kbin.social/m/[!technology@beehaw.org](/c/technology@beehaw.org). What OP wants is a way to post the link and (in my case) go to https://melly.0x-ia.moe/c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] WorseDoughnut@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you mean to link that specifically to kbin?

[–] Shortcake@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Just an example, but I used this sub after editing my comment

[–] WorseDoughnut@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

Well from what it looks like, on my instance, is that your [!technology@beehaw.org](/c/technology@beehaw.org) is linking to https://kbin.social/m/[!technology@beehaw.org](/c/technology@beehaw.org).

I think what OP is after, is a way to make it link to the reader's own instanced version of technology@beehaw.org

I was under the impression that the exclamation mark was designed to do exactly that: take everything after the ! and interpret the community@instance.example into whatever the user's instance uses for links (m for kbin, c for lemmy).