Links to other instances always say I’m logged out (which, technically, I am) that makes the link useless.

For example, I am logged in at my home instance of https://midwest.social If I click a link to go to https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support it takes me to that community, but I am not logged in (to lemmy.ml) so I am unable to meaningfully interact with it. I have to manually edit each lemmy URL that I go to in the URL bar in order for me to go to that community with my lemmy account.

So I need to manually change https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support into https://midwest.social/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and I have to do this each time I click a link to another instance if I want to post there.

I’ve been a system administrator for 20 years, and this took me a few minutes to figure out. “Casual” users are just going to be SOL since they aren’t going to be analyzing editing URLs to make them work. I feel like the only want to fix this is to have a browser addon intercept any lemmy URLs and modify them to work based on your home instance.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this just how it is?

  • SkelectusEnglish
    4•11 months ago

    Hey I was just about to ask the same thing. I tried to form my sidebar links like this [!suomi@sopuli.xyz](c/suomi@sopuli.xyz), which almost works.

    Edit: Making links with URL format /c/community@domain.xyz seems to work.

    • ArindrewOPEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      Just testing: Like this?

      Edit: Looks like /c/main is really all you need for the link, the @domain suffix isn’t necessary if the post is on the domain my account is on.

      Maybe it’s relative to the user? To me, my link above points to https://midwest.social/c/main Is it the same for you?