Comment on Self host Blorp, your personal Lemmy/PieFed frontend
moseschrute@piefed.social 15 hours agoIt get's even weirder. I'm now writing this from PieFed. If you view this comment from PieFed it won't have the trailing slash, but from Lemmy it will.
https://piefed.social
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Very interesting I wonder what happens if I post both trailing and non-trailing options, do they both get canonized into the same format?
piefed.ca – has a trailing slash piefed.ca – does not
Thank you for having me along on this journey. I don’t really know where it’s leading, but maybe it’s about the weird software behaviors we discover on the way.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 14 hours ago
And posting from piefed, is the result the same?
https://piefed.ca/ -- has a trailing slash
https://piefed.ca -- does not
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Yup, they all have trailing slashes when viewed on Lemmy, and 3/4 have trailing slashes when viewed on piefed. So only piefed actually respects what was originally typed. Lemmy adds a trailing slash when you’re adding the comment, and also adds a trailing slash when reading a comment posted that doesn’t originally have a trailing slash. Intriguing (and slightly annoying).
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 14 hours ago
On a similar but unrelated note, Lemmy also displays the two-hyphens as an em-dash, but unlike the trailing slashes, it does not encode that into the comment, so on piefed you still see the two-hyphens in both comments.
Fun!