This is probably old news, but I didn’t realize before now - if I link to !mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de, Lemmy users will see it as a link to lemmy.example/m/mbinmeta.de.
Is this something that could potentially be resolved at some point? I get that it’s a bit of a legacy problem from the questionable decision not to follow Lemmy URL structures.
I guess it could always be fixed on the Lemmy side, but is a fix on the Mbin side of things possible? Since community links from Lemmy work well on Mbin, can’t Mbin links just be federated in the exact same way?
Edit: I observed this in this thread: https://kbin.earth/m/seattle@lemmy.world/t/1109670 https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33165045
Apparently it federates well in this thread. Might be related to where the community is hosted?
It could also be that it happens when linking communities that the Lemmy instance hosting the community has not yet federated with.
There is some very broken markdown in that post:
Cross-posted from [!washington](/m/Washington@50501.chat) ([`!washington@50501.chat`](/c/washington@50501.chat))Would be interesting which client produced this code. The link format is completely broken.
The weird
!washington@50501.chatlink was my attempt to offer a transparent alternative for Lemmy users. The rest is presumably done on the mbin side.Here’s my input:
I’ve discovered if you don’t use markdown at all and just write
!washington@50501.chatit works best in most clients.Does this work across platforms?
!washington@50501.chat
Your link works great here, on Mbin.
On the first version of my post I only wrote
!washington@50501.chat- as you’ll see, there’s no markdown in the first link coming from my side. The problem here seems to be that Mbin for some reason translates!washington@50501.chatinto[!washington](/m/Washington@50501.chat)automatically.I’m not sure exactly why, as it does not seem to be the normal behaviour.