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For example, this comment links to another community on another instance, but when clicked on, you're not actually able to interact with anything on that community, because you're suddenly not logged in.

It's doesn't function like linking to a subreddit, and I understand that that's because of federation, but is there a better way of doing this? It seems... very stupid that linking to a page would suddenly "log you out" for all intents and purposes, while searching that same community wouldn't.

Does this make sense?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This works on browsers but crashes Jerboa for some reason:

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[Ask Lemmy](/c/[email protected])

[Lemmy World](/c/[email protected])
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what I expected clicking those links in Jerboa, but it's true they do crash Jerboa when clicked

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading that comment, reading this comment, still clicking on the link with Jerboa:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They work for me on Jerboa 0.35!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They kind of work, you can see below that the content is not from those communities. I have to change the sort method to get the content, but the sort method is broken for me as I'm on lemmy.one which is not on v18:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Whoops, I get that too. Refreshing the page loads the correct content for me. Clicking those links previously crashed Jerboa iirc so at least it's a step in the right direction!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Those links don't crash my jerboa. 0.18.0-rc and 0.0.35.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hilariously, neither of these work on Kbin either (probably because Kbin uses m instead of c).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But is there a way to link to individual submissions on other instances?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The feature exists in the fediverse, but I don't know if or how it's implemented in Lemmy. I'm using Kbin and there is a button called "copy url to fediverse" (for comments and posts/threads):

Your comment: https://feddit.de/comment/508518

This post/thread: https://lemm.ee/post/288327

So basically, each entry has a unique ID and home instance that you can use to build a link to the "original".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yes but that second link takes me out of my instance and I can't interact. That's the point of the question: can I link to an individual submission on another instance without leaving my own instance so that I can interact?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Certainly! Just copy the URL from your browser. It looks something like this for me:
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/87952

From your perspective it's:
https://feddit.de/post/1053437

The original which is located on [email protected] is here:
https://lemmy.ml/post/1483815

Did I understand your question correctly? I feel like I missed something. It's new for me, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More likely I'm not being clear enough. These links all have an instance hard coded into them so I can't easily share them with people outside that instance. Right? Or am I not seeing something? What OP and I are looking for is a way to post a link to an individual submission on any instance that anyone can click on, regardless of their home instance, and be able to interact (this presumes their home instance and the target instance are federated, obviously).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, now I get it! Thanks for staying with me and explaining.

That would be a nice feature indeed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can confirm this link style works in the iOS Memmy App. As well as links formatted like β€œ!community@instance”.