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Is there a solution to links from different instances? (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 2 years ago by ayyndrew to c/lemmyworld

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This is a more general federated social media question, but posts often have links to content on instances other than the one I have an account with. For example, this post has links to beehaw.org posts. When I click on them, I am unable to vote on or comment on anything, because I don't have an account on beehaw.org.

Is there a Chrome extension or some other solution that would redirect these posts to my preferred lemmy instance?

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[–] overby 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Links should be created as relative links with the host server at the end like: [ErgoMechKeyboards](/c/[email protected])
This wil result in a link like this: ErgoMechKeyboards

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The latest version of Jerboa crashes for me any time I tap such a link. Really frustrating.

Anyway, either the client or underlying framework really needs to rewrite URLs to be relative to the currently logged-in instance. This is a major issue.

[–] ayyndrew 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does this work for specific posts or just communities?

[–] overby 2 points 2 years ago

Not sure it works for posts - they have the format: servername/post/id. I'll see if I can find a way

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

I'm guessing it would work the same way with Kbin, just using /m/ instead of /c/?

[–] overby 1 points 2 years ago

The only link I have to a community on kbin is pointing to a /c - mechanicalkeyboards. But I'm not sure the content of the two are the same (https://kbin.social/m/mechanicalkeyboards)