I can’t be the only reddit migrant who often instinctually goes to a given community by typing /r/community, only to be 404d. If the /r/ path isn’t being used for anything else, is it possible to have it dynamically redirect to /c/ instead?

  • Shadow@lemmy.caMEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Sure, why not? Added. It’s just a 301 for people typing in the URL by hand.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    The canonical convention here for community names on Lemmy is:

    ![community name]@[instance]

    It’s actually discouraged even to link it as /c/, (though people here often refer to communities in that way). Example: instead of https://lemmy.ca/c/canada, use

    !canada@lemmy.ca. this way, for users visiting us from other instances such as lemm.ee, their Lemmy app or interface will automatically convert the link to https://lemm.ee/c/canada@lemmy.ca which is how they can stay logged in and comment on posts there, instead of navigating directly to lemmy.ca where they have no account.

    Edit: !canada, on some UIs make a link for local users, but chances are that will run into the 404 problem for other instance users.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      That’s interesting, I’ve seen links in that format but was never quite sure what was going on, thanks for the explanation! I get why it would be done that way, but at first blush it seems somewhag inherently problematic to establish a convention where you provide someone with an address and yet when they follow it, their browser will always leave them at a different address then what they clicked.

      Though in this case, it didn’t even arise for links, but just me typing the old Reddit style URL into my browser bar by hand because I’m ancient.

  • Nik282000@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    /r/ is for Reddit, /c/ is for community. Lemmy is not a collection of subreddits it is a collection of communities.

      • Nik282000@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Relevant username. Do you think facebook posts should also be called tweets?

        • masterspace@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          22·
          1 year ago

          I think that in the context of a conversation, if someone uses ‘tweet’ instead of ‘post’, we all know what they meant and it would be an unproductive dick move to nitpick their terminology given that they mean basically the same thing in most contexts.