Yep! You're right. It doesn't help that people get confused because they get linked to a community on a different instance that references the instance domain (so it takes you to that server, where you are NOT a local user). I think community linking and link handling and also having a way to gently nudge users back onto their home instance while viewing content would be fantastic.

I was thinking this could be done with a "official" lemmy extension for Chrome/Firefox, where you can save your instance host and have it look for links that follow this format.

It would auto-change links from: [https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy)

To: [https://{your host}/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml](https://{your host}/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)