Submitted 3 weeks ago by sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world
Let's say:
- I am on instance A.
- I browse on a community that is on instance B
- a user from instance C post something on that community B.
Now i want to share a link to this post. Which instance should i pick?
- A my home instance
- B the community
- C the post author
Id pick the communities instance because that’s the one responsible for federating the post and comments. Id only choose the instances a or c if b is or is planning to shutdown, or if I really wanted to show people what my home instance is
In my opinion I always do that original instance the post was on.
Theoretically, it shouldn't matter.
In the ideal case every connected server should host a full and complete copy of the data from the originating server (as @xkdrxodrixkr@feddit.org says, that's B)
Reality is a bit different, but not enough to warrant always picking B. Just share whichever you'd like, but B is the most right.
but B is the most right.
C is most correct canonical URL actually. See the HTML at the bottom of this screenshot
More info: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1418
That was surprising. I thought like many others that the posts belong to the community. Actually it is not like you have proven.
Do you know an easy way to retrieve link B? As a piefed.ca user viewing a piefed.social post on a lemmy.world community, I see no easy way to retrieve the lemmy.world link. If no easy way exists, then I guess it settles the B vs. C debate.
I don’t think there’s a quick way to get link B, but C is literally called the canonical URL. Check the <head> section in the HTML.
Remember that posts belong to users, the community only does a retweet/boost of the post.
More info: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1418
Do you know an easy way to retrieve link B?
At this moment the web interface doesn't support this.
I use the app Voyager on my smartphone. I can set in the settings that the share link target links to A, B, C by default or that the app asks me everytime.
More confirmation that C is the canonical URL. Check the <head> section in the HTML (bottom of the screenshot)
Remember that posts belong to users, the community only does a retweet/boost of the post.
More info: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1418
Just copy the URL. Maybe if you’re DMing someone or replying to one specific person choose their instance.
Otherwise there’s just no perfect answer, keep it simple and just copy that URL.
IMO link B is the “most original” one. Sort of like an “authoritative source”, if you will.
I tend to pick D, the instance that is federated with most other instances or C.
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I agree with the other answers here, however if you share the link to another fediuser outside of the platform (e.g matrix) I really like sharing with threadiverse.link.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
@aeharding@vger.social could you add threadiverse support?
aeharding@vger.social 3 weeks ago
yes.
jinx@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
there’s also lemsha.re and voyager’s go.getvoyager.app
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I thought lemsha.re stopped working - guess not, that’s good news! And such a cool feature by the dev with the voyager link. Haven’t tried that feature out yet (voyager is my personal favourite lemmy app).
anothermember@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
That’s useful thanks for sharing.
It feels like there should be something like that built into Lemmy and I was a bit surprised there isn’t, just like how you can link to a community for example with !fediverse@lemmy.world
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
The frontends and apps do redirect embedded links in comments no?
Or maybe you mean when you paste an url to the browser that it should automatically redirect to your instance? If so thats tad bit difficult. There was once a post that proposed something like a activityPub/lemmy URI scheme where links would look like this:
activitypub://<postorcommentidentifier>But I don’t remember where that conversation led and also I have no idea how feasible that would be.