For example, this comment links to another community on another instance, but when clicked on, you’re not actually able to interact with anything on that community, because you’re suddenly not logged in.
It’s doesn’t function like linking to a subreddit, and I understand that that’s because of federation, but is there a better way of doing this? It seems… very stupid that linking to a page would suddenly “log you out” for all intents and purposes, while searching that same community wouldn’t.
Does this make sense?
Yes, but it just got released as part of Lemmy 0.18.0, which isn’t everywhere yet: https://lemmy.world/post/477633
I don’t think so. I’m on 0.18 and links to posts and comments still go to the linked instance.
However COMMUNITY linking is working great! Clicking on a link to a community on a different instance keeps you on your own instance :)
There is no way to locally link to a specific post or comment.
There’s no way currently
Sounds like a big or missing feature. You might want to write it up on GitHub if you can or the !lemmy@lemmy.ml community.
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What is in my post is what the UI’s autocomplete provided. If it’s problematic or wrong, you should probably report a bug to the UI repo (I don’t know the details about these links).
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Coupled with the new rendering of links, into what I believe are instance agnostic formats for
0.18, the system seems it will to work well.Removed by mod
Test: !lemmy@lemmy.ml
Edit: !lemmy@lemmy.ml
Yep, that happens when you select it from the dropdown box. So it’s the dropdown box that is making non-agnostic links to the host, however 0.18 ignores this and makes an agnostic link based on the text.
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It’s already been on there. They just didn’t get to it this release
Here’s the first statement on this new feature that I saw: https://zemmy.cc/comment/119470. Presumably they know more about the feature and who developed it.
I also suspect this link will demonstrate your point!
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