I know that works for Kbin users, but I’m not always 100% clear on what works for other instances, so I just go with my old habit of linking the URL. Sounds like that’s a bad habit though!
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Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 months ago!truegaming@kbin.social. Try to use the bang syntax when linking communities rather than direct linking it like that, so that others can click it and access it from their own instance.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 months ago
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
It works on both kbin and lemmy. And if it works on kbin, I assume that it works on mbin, given that that’s a fork.
No idea for piefed and sublinks.
I’m pretty sure at this point that the bang syntax has enough inertia that if a given Threadiverse server implementation doesn’t support it, it should. I don’t think that the syntax is particularly flawed. Well, other than that it doesn’t directly map to the URL’s syntax, a la the Reddit convention of “/r/foo” or the kbin convention of “/b/”, which might make it less-intuitive.
Hmm. Actually, this should be pretty easy to test, because…the magic of the Threadiverse’s guest access and federation.
Works on Kbin!
kbin.social/m/…/How-to-revitalize-this-sub#entry-…
Works on Piefed!
piefed.social/post/88672#post_replies
I don’t know of an active sublinks instance, and nobody on fedia.io – the largest mbin instance – appears to presently be subscribed to !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 months ago
Alright I’m probably being a dummy. Nothing happens when I do !kbin.social/m/truegaming.
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
So, the syntax is:
!truegaming@kbin.socialThat yields:
!truegaming@kbin.social
On lemmy instances, the visible text is “!truegaming@kbin.social”.
On kbin instances – and I really think that this should be changed – the instance renders the visible text to be “!truegaming”.
Both still create a valid link to it if you use the syntax with the appended “@instancename”. Just on kbin, you don’t get to see what someone actually typed. You can hover the mouse over it to see the instance to which it’s linking.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 months ago
!truegaming it is then lol
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Also, on the user side of that, note that there’s a Firefox and Chrome extension, “Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin” where one can set one’s home instance. It’ll add a button in the sidebar on remote instances where one can just click on “view in my home instance”.
!instance_assistant@lemmy.ca
Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Finally got around to trying that extension out. And wow was it significantly less useful than I was expecting.
I was first offput by its settings page. “Home instance” is clear enough, but then it also needs a list of instances to “change display”. No idea what that’s supposed to do.
But the real problem is that it doesn’t actually do anything useful. Yeah if I’m on lemmy.world/c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, I can click it and be taken to aussie.zone/c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, but I can do that really easily manually. The actual useful convenient thing would be if I were at lemmy.world/post/14353571 and clicking the button took me to aussie.zone/post/8919002
But instead, clicking the button displays this popup:
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