Is there anywhere that lemmy’s various types of internal links are documented? like !community links @user links, links of the form https://lemmy.com/c/[email protected]. i have also seen links that just have “/c/[email protected]”… at the moment i’m only developing rendering code for them as i happen upon them, which is ad-hoc

  • marsara9@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know of any documentation off the top of my head but currently there’s

    User links: @marsara9@lemmy.word

    These will translate to https://<your instance>/u/marsara[email protected] assuming your not on lemmy.word. If you are it will just be https://lemmy.word/u/marsara9.

    And community links: !fediverse@lemmy.world

    These will follow the same pattern but will have /c/ instead of /u/.

    There’s been proposals to add others but that’s all that exists at the moment.

      • marsara9@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The one that begins with https is obviously just a full URL and will take the user directly to that instance rather than staying on their home instance. And the one that starts with /c/ is a relative path. While it might work, if the community/user it points to is on the same server as the user, they might encounter errors as it might try and navigate to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] which is undefined (may or may not work).

        • blawsybogsy@lemmy.mlOP
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          1 year ago

          yeah, the relative ones are always on another instance it seems. if you strip the ‘/c/’ you can hit the ‘/community’ endpoint with the ‘[email protected]’ part as the name parameter and it returns the community_view for it. works fine.