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Create community redirects

Open avidseeker opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

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Add the ability for servers to set up redirects to other instance communities. E.g: Say lemmy.world instance doesn't want to have a lemmy_support community. It can instead create a link redirect from https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy_support to https://lemmy.ml/lemmy_support.

This can help reduce duplicated server entries IF a server instance is willing to.

avidseeker avatar Jun 12 '23 19:06 avidseeker

This is exactly what Element does for Matrix rooms, and it would be a huge quality of life update for anyone searching for a specific community on Lemmy/kbin.

To provide a real life example, I have my Matrix server at #cybersecurity:thomcat.rocks set as a local address for #cybersecurity:matrix.org. This is listed in the room settings on #cybersecurity:matrix.org.

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th0mcat avatar Jul 09 '23 18:07 th0mcat

Related to https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057

lionirdeadman avatar Jul 23 '23 04:07 lionirdeadman

This wouldn't be too difficult to implement, would be a good first issue.

dessalines avatar Oct 18 '23 21:10 dessalines