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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/
.Whoa, that's so cool!
And, man, that's a bummer.
Trickery using URL features, like this, will work from clients that act like a web browser. Other clients may have problems with it. There should probably be a standard syntax for "a link to community X hosted on instance Y" that all clients can learn to support.
Just FYI, this link...
...causes the Jerboa app to crash. I think it's a known issue and hopefully one that gets sorted, but just wanted to warn others.
Wow, good thing to point out.
Relative URLs should work straightforwardly for a UI that runs in a browser, but yeah, I can imagine a custom app doesn't know what domain or even protocol to associate with them.