Sharing posts across instances
from humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee to fediverse@lemmy.world on 06 Mar 06:40
https://lemm.ee/post/57428587

Is there an easy way to share a lemmy thread in a way that’s instance-agnostic (they can view it on their instance even if it’s different from mine) ?

Similarly, any way to quickly switch to viewing a linked post on my instance if it’s linked through another?

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tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 06 Mar 06:51 next collapse

It’s not instance agnostic because the thread lives on the instance of the author. But links in this format: lemm.ee/post/57428587 can be put in the search field on any instance and will return the proper post.

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com on 06 Mar 08:49 next collapse

cooooool mbin automatically formats it to a local link: <img alt="." src="https://cdn.catsweat.com/f3/17/f317f3bdd150dacae117d5b9ce99d4eba923b6ec9d5ab77f53e16f36777a1460.png">
must be new in v1.80

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Mar 09:04 next collapse

Yes, it’s a great feature

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 06 Mar 09:07 next collapse

That’s cool indeed! If it doesn’t get in the way with too many links in a post

mesamunefire@piefed.social on 06 Mar 14:50 collapse

Oh great!

ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Mar 09:25 collapse

And smart clients/UIs like tesseract realise that the link is to a remote lemmy instance, and then give you the option of viewing it remotely or from your own instances perspective

jqubed@lemmy.world on 06 Mar 07:04 next collapse

There is a website that will redirect to the post on your instance but it looks like I did not bookmark it. I expect someone else will chime in with it.

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al on 06 Mar 07:34 next collapse

You’re probably looking for lemmyverse.link

jackalope@lemmy.ml on 06 Mar 07:54 next collapse

Is there a way this kind of thing could be worked into lemmy as a feature?

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Mar 08:35 collapse

It is part of the Lemmy 1.0 release

feddit.org/post/5390705

humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee on 06 Mar 09:00 next collapse

Oh, that’s really cool! Thanks

loaf@sh.itjust.works on 06 Mar 10:13 collapse

Oh this is nice. Thanks for sharing!

meldrik@lemmy.wtf on 06 Mar 07:59 next collapse

On Lemmy it always translates a link to a post into your own instance.

!peertube@lemmy.wtf will use Lemmy.wtf for me because that’s my instance.

However, on external sites it’s an issue. Here the link it always static. You can install an addon that automatically redirects you to your own Lemmy instance. I have this on Firefox.

[deleted] on 06 Mar 08:31 next collapse

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Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Mar 08:36 next collapse

feddit.org/post/5390705

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Mar 08:36 collapse

Similarly, any way to quickly switch to viewing a linked post on my instance if it’s linked through another?

Paste the post URL in your instance search bar.

humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee on 06 Mar 08:56 collapse

Ah, I see. Thanks!

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Mar 08:57 collapse

You’re welcome. It’s a bit finicky to be honest 😄

humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee on 06 Mar 08:58 collapse

Considering what brought me here, I’ll take finicky over maliciously designed any day. :)

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Mar 09:03 collapse

Sounds good, welcome by the way!