Asklemmy

Yes, you can do this using a relative URL!

Here's an example.

Here's how I wrote it:

[Here's an example.](/c/[email protected])

Because this URL doesn't have a protocol or a domain, your browser fills those in from the URL of the page you're on when you see it. Since that's on your local Lemmy instance, you'll see a link to [email protected] on that instance.

Also: When you're looking at a Lemmy comment, if you don't know how the author wrote the markup for it, you can use the "view source" button underneath the "..." menu.

Note: These links will NOT work between Lemmy and Kbin, because Kbin uses /m/ instead of /c/.

Edit Sorry I misunderstood. I believe you can link the community as a whole, but posts I don't believe you can.

There isn't a way at the moment. Solutions to this are being discussed on Github

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

Edit 2

Maybe you can't link a community either, I could have sworn I have seen it done but that could have just happened to be for my instance.

Edit 3

My testing please ignore :)

Test1

I'd like to know too. I was hoping it would be something simple like [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) which would resolve for everyone. Didn't work when I tried it, though I might not have done it correctly.

EDIT: I guess I could try again here [email protected]

EDIT2: Nope: That link goes to https://lemmy.world/post/[[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) for me, which is not valid.

That's what this does:

[Some text here]([email protected])

Tap the 'more' skinny hamburger menu just ~~above~~ below this message to 'view source' of the below:

blah blah blah links to [email protected]

Actually..better, here is one for an instance that is neither yours or the one you posted into:

blay harg vlar

Once your Lemmy web frontend upgrades to version 0.18, the following should all auto-link with no extra syntax:

• [email protected]
• /c/[email protected]
• /m/[email protected]
• /u/[email protected]

These should then all link to the instance you're currently on.

Note: because this is implemented in the frontend and does not change the underlying data, other Fediverse clients will not show these the same unless they also implement this themselves.

Yes it would be very convenient, right now if I’m recommending a community I simply write out the URL manually to make sure it routes via the respective user’s instance first.

I thought it worked if you just linked /c/[email protected]
~~With the only caveat being that users on kbin will need /m/asklemmy.ml~~
With the only caveat being that users on kbin will need /m/[email protected]

I would normally test the crap out of these before posting since I really don't know what I'm doing, but I'm on my phone and mostly busy at the moment. Sorry if it doesn't work.