If I want to share something I see, what’s a good way of sharing that so if someone opens that link it uses their preferred UI or application?

It’s a bit annoying to open a link and have to find it using my instance’s website to interact with it.

  • @BestZorroOP
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    22 days ago

    What is a canonical link? Sorry I’m pretty new to the fediverse

    • @[email protected]
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      42 days ago

      That means if it’s a YouTube video, post the link to YouTube, not invidious or peertube or whatever. If the client wants to load YouTube in the browser, or the app, or revanced, or newpipe, or whatever, let them do that themselves.

      • @BestZorroOP
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        12 days ago

        But what if the content is original? Let’s say I do want to share an orginal lemmy post?

        • @[email protected]
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          2 days ago

          Use the crosspost function for that. All the clients I’ve used have supported it.

          Assuming you’re posting to Lemmy, anyway. If not, you want to hit the fediverse button (rainbow network icon) first, then share that URL. At least that’s how you do it in the default web client, yours may be different.