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How to refer to a message in different server? (xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf)
submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by aary@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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I saw that messages have different identifiers on different servers. What should I write in my text to make the hyperlink to work on all servers?

https://xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf/post/15
https://lemmy.ml/post/49064481

15 ≠ 49064481

The site https://lemmy.ml/ is unreachable from my computer because of government politics. I want to refer to the copy of message, which is downloaded into my instance. But it have a new ID in my DB.

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[–] aary@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

it give the resulting link as https://lemmyverse.link/xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf/post/15 so the lemmyverse.link website is the single point of failure. It goes against the idea of federation.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's just a convenience service. Your original url is right there in the path if it were to go down, and it's open source if you want to run your own.

There's no other way currently to do it

[–] aary@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

«Your original url is right there in the path if it were to go down» But how it's supposed to help one, to see the original URL? It will help only if the content is archived in some way. If remote lemmy server will go down. Then content will became unavailable, even If I install a local copy of that redirecting engine.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

The point is that it redirects you to the post on your personal interest.

You can also paste that into the search of any lemmy instance to find it, if they mirrored it

[–] aary@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

You can also paste that into the search of any lemmy instance to find it, if they mirrored it

Yes, this works. But I don't understand how. The question is - will it work, if remote instance went down?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Once a user on the remote instance subscribes, all posts are replicated over as they're made. Not at the the time of request.

[–] aary@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf 1 points 16 hours ago

The existence of local replica doesn't prove, that searching by remote URL will work (with remote server down).