Let’s say:

  • I am on instance A.
  • I browse on a community that is on instance B
  • a user from instance C post something on that community B.

Now i want to share a link to this post. Which instance should i pick?

  • A my home instance
  • B the community
  • C the post author
  • anothermember@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The frontends and apps do redirect embedded links in comments no? E.g. if you click this it should automatically use your instance to find the comment (even though its a link to my instance): https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17606535

    No that link opens in your instance for me like a vanilla hyperlink, I’ve used several instances all with Lemmy’s default web front end and that’s always been the behaviour in my experience, maybe some apps do it differently? If it did it automatically wouldn’t the software have to have hard-coded knowledge of every other instance to know whether to handle it as a Lemmy link or somewhere else on the web?