So I know about /c/community@example.host for communities and /u/user@example.host for users, but how do I link to individual posts in a way that won’t be a hassle for people in other instances?
So we’ve figured out what the rainbow and regular link icons do. But that doesn’t answer OP’s question.
I’ve tried linking with just the
/post/<ID>, linking with/post<ID>@<instance>, and no luck so far. This must be possible somehow!it ought to be something simple like
/p/<ID>Problem is posts have a different ID on each instance they federate to. It’s a bit of a bugger.
It seems dumb to me that the fediverse doesn’t use UUIDs
Seems like its not yet, theres a github issue discussing adding the feature
Curses! Thanks for the share, will keep an eye on that.
I’m case it’s useful, there’s a discussion on linking here: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36299
I don’t think there’s any single answer yet though.
I think that’s what the fediverse icon does (the rainbow hexagonal one) so for your post for example it would be https://lemmy.world/post/94456
If I click on the fediverse icon on your post I get carried to lemmy.blahaj.zone though. I wanted to link it inside the users’ current instance like /c/ and /u/ do.
Next to that fediverse icon is a regular hyperlink icon, that should take you to where you wanna go, but on your own instance.
If I right-click copy it, it brings me to https://lemmy.world/comment/128943. It isn’t what I want, I want a way to bring others into this post but inside their own instances.
As I understand it, the fediverse icon links to the home instance for the community the post was made on. I don’t think there’s currently a mechanism to link a post in a way that consistently resolves to the user’s home server’s version so they can vote and be logged in while viewing it.
I don’t even see that icon on posts (desktop, web), only on comments. So now I’m even more confused! :D
Update to my own confusion:
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You see the rainbow icon on posts that aren’t from your home instance. This icon takes you to the full original URL of that post on the remote instance.
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The regular chain link icon on comments does indeed give you a link to a comment via your home instance. But that’s no good if you’re trying to link it agnostically for everyone else.
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Likely there is no way yet. Even the clean way to link back to your instance will throw an error, if the previous connection was not yet made.
