Comment on Some Questions about the Fediverse

• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s an example. Say you want to visit the Engineering community on sh.itjust.works. The community lives at this URL:
  https://sh.itjust.works/c/engineering

  However, you are using an account at lemm.ee. In order to post or comment you need to access the community via lemm.ee, which means using this URL:
  https://lemm.ee/c/engineering@sh.itjust.works

  In the first case you are accessing the community directly. In the second case you are accessing the community through your local instance.

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  • CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !engineering@sh.itjust.works

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    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks bot, but I did that intentionally.

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  • DisOne@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for the extra context. Yes I’ve so far only accessed everything via smartphone app, but no doubt I’ll use my pc at some stage. Much to learn…

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a user gets sent a link to a thread in some remote fediverse site.. which the browser dutifully opens. but then the user cant comment, because they are not logged in. user is confused. it is a common user story.

  for some people this is obvious, for others its a problem. google/facebook kinda get around this kind of thing with an SSO process (login with google!)

  at its root is the problem of finding remote communities for which one would want to subscribe.

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