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How to refer to a message in different server? (xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 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 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 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 21 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 20 hours ago

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