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[–] skepller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's not a "post from feddit.org," that's a "post by a feddit.org user on a lemmy.ml community." It may be DDOSing feddit.org because that server's view of it is the link that happened to go viral, but there's no reason folks outside Lemmy couldn't view it on the server it's actually posted on, or some other third node like lemmy.world or whatever.

[–] Xylight 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The original link ap_id corresponds to the author's instance.

User@feddit.org posts to community@lemmy.ml. The path the post will take is this:

User -> Author's instance -> Community's instance -> Notified to all other instances subscribed, to download from author's instance.


As for your other point, there is no good universal Lemmy linking thing for posts. communities and users have names that work on any instance, but there's no similar unique identifier for posts.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As for your other point, there is no good universal Lemmy linking thing for posts.

In another comment I mentioned that there's this lemmyverse link thing. From the way you phrased that I'm not sure if you don't know about it, or do know but just don't think it's good, but I think it's about halfway to being useful.

What it needs to get the rest of the way is to:

  • default to some kind of load-balanced or at least round-robin instance selection instead of defaulting to the original instance of the link given, and
  • be built into the Lemmy UI(s) so that it's easy to grab a lemmyverse.link URL to share.