If you’re like me, you would join one Lemmy instance, and then join a community by one of the following ways,

  1. through a 3rd party search
  2. on the server you are on
  3. a link to the community

Let’s say you find a community you like hosted from a different Lemmy instance, you bookmark it and find out that you have to make another account, which you don’t, in order to post, interact and save settings.

We can fix this by modifying or editing the URL in the bookmark.

say my main account is in Lemmy world, I click a link to another community and it acts as if I should have an account on there and I can’t log into my account through new instance! How do I make it just work with just my original account?

using https://lemmy.ml/c/linux_gaming as example (not in the screenshot but same concept)

  1. at the beginning of the url, I would want to change the lemmy.ml to lemmy.world this tells “them” i’m on the instance that I signed up on.

  2. at the end of the url right after the name of the instance lastly I would want to add @lemmy.ml. This is useful with communities with double names in different instances! Sometimes what will happen without that included in the url is “they’l” will take to the community you asked for but only if it’s from that community at the start of the url, so be sure to have that in the bookmarked URL.

  3. the bookmarked URL in my case should end up looking like this, https://lemmy.world/c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml