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?

  • klu9@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
      3·
      2 days ago

      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) .