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How to link to a Lemmy post? (self.newtolemmy)

submitted 2 days ago by klu9 to c/newtolemmy

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How can I link to a Lemmy post in a way that another Lemmy user that can view the linked page without the "You must log in or sign in to vote or comment" message (when they are already logged in)?

And vice versa: how can I click on a Lemmy link and not get that problem?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

No native way exists yet. You need to use services such as https://lemsha.re/

Lemmy version v1.0.0 should solve this problem within Lemmy by rewriting remote instance links as local.

[–] klu9 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thanks. At first I thought it didn't work, but there's a work around.

If I give it:

https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/post/42943146

I get:

This URL is not supported

If I give it (click "Original Post" button, page opens in new tab, regular web, not a front end like Alexandrite, copy from URL bar):

https://lemmy.ca/post/42943146

I get: https://lemsha.re/lemmy.ca/post/42943146

Clicking on that takes me to an intermediate page asking if I want to follow the link "as is" or visit on my instance.

So it is possible, with multiple additional steps when using a front end like Alex.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yep. Alternative frontend links don't work. You will have to use the instance's domain, which is lemmy.ca. You still should be redirected to your alexandrite frontend if you set the Photon UI setting to alex.lemmy.ca in the preferences menu (works for Tesseract, so I guess alexandrite should as well) .

[–] klu9 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the info.

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