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Is there a good way to link to posts and coments? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 day ago by gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just wanted to link to this post in this comment but when others click on it, i think it opens the post in another instance, when looked at from the web browser. Is there a good way to properly link to posts and comments?

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not in lemmy, but on piefed i can comment and link to posts pretty easy. And stay within piefed.

Just made a test post.

Maybe lemmy can piggyback on the work done?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh so that was that "test" comment for xD

i was wondering ...

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yep! I just clicked om the above post in piefed snd it auto made it work so i can comment using piefed. Its so uncomplicated.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are some services such as lemmyverse.link to link to posts and comments in a instance agnostic way, but they aren't a native solution.

There is a FEP called "Object Links" to accomplish this, but who knows if it ever will be implemented: https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/e232/

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

I think UUID might solve this, as it's supposed to generate worldwide-unique identifiers:

The DOI system might also be an interesting approach to give each piece of content on the internet an instance agnostic link.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I guess if you know they're a Lemmy user you can make a relative link to their Lemmy search page:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/52571066

that's using this markdown code:

[https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/52571066](/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.tchncs.de%2Fpost%2F52571066&type=Url&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll&titleOnly=false)

But this probably only works for the default lemmy-ui

I'm still salty this feature request was closed as not planned lol https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Not really well, at least to my knowledge. Neither of the options I'm aware of work with mobile apps for lemmy.

There was some site that would attempt to auto redirect to a person's home instance, and there are a few userscripts for browsers that try to do the same thing with normal instance specific links like yours.

There is a lemmy redirector app for android that tried to work like the userscripts, and maybe I'm not using it right, but I've never gotten it to work on my phone alongside lemmy apps.