How do I reference another community on my or another instance?
How do I reference another community on my or another instance?
On reddit if I wanted to refer to a subreddit I'd type /r/oneOrangeBraincell/ and that would get turned into a link. What's the lemmy equivalent?
The most commonly used format is
!community@instance.tld(the exclamation point is important). For something like 90% of Lemmy - browser and apps - that should open the community in your home instance when clicked. Only one of the iOS apps (Memmy, Mlem? I don't have an iPhone sadly) had issues with this format.Unfortunately Memmy doesn't support it (yet) but Voyager does :)
There are several ways to link to a community. If your instance has had someone previously search for the community, then they will all work. If this hasn’t happened (usually because your instance is small or new) then there can be problems with the “shorthand” method that begins with an !. I’ve written a full explanation in this article at the Community Search Tips community. It lists the drawbacks and advantages of each approach that I’m aware of.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !communitysearchtips@lemmy.ninja
all you need to do is refresh the page after the error message appears and you're golden, no big deal
Would be cool if they added a placeholder page that said search in progress or something
Great article!
!fediverse@lemmy.world will work anywhere
Weirdly enough, on Kbin, if I click that link, it loads me that instance's feed within Kbin. But if I middle-click that same link to open it in a new tab, it opens on the original instance's page, instead.
As if we didn't have enough confusing little oddities on Kbin as it was, lol
Wow really?? It functions as expected for me. I'm not on kbin though
That is not true. It will fail with a cryptic error message on all instances that have never searched for fediverse@lemmy.world, and it will fail for Mastodon users. Those are just the ones we’ve discovered so far.
On Voyager, I need to tap it, get the cryptic error message, then refresh, and it works.
Annoying, but for free alpha software, I'm not going to complain too much.
Just refresh or go back and click the link again and it should work. It's only when it's the first time accessing. At least for me.