Right now there seems to be a bit of an issue where if I want to share a link to a lemmy post with a friend, but if we call different servers our “home”, even though both of our “homes” have a roughly similar copy of the same post, there currently is no easy way that I perceive for us to navigate to “our” copy of that post.

This becomes further of an issue when it comes to search engine parsing. For example I use lemmy.world as my “home” server, however when I find information on google it may link to the fedia.io or whatever “sources” link.

For reading this is no big deal.

But if I want to respond to the post, I now need to somehow figure out a way to re-route to the lemmy.world copy of that post to make my submission with my user account.

I think ideally what we need to consider is perhaps one of the following:

A: a browser plugin that can automatically detect and redirect to the matching version of the post for your server

B: OAuth support, so I can OAuth login to any lemmy server with my credentials from my “home” server via an OAuth v2 token

  • LachlanUnchainedEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I always check who I’m replying to, and make sure the link is relevant to them.

    Then also add the home link below. It can be quite a bit of work.

    Both are unique URL, and post ID, so it’s not as simple as adding and @mydomain like sharing a community or user.

    So A won’t really work. But B would be a cool option for future development.

    • @pixxelkickOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      this only works from within lemmy.

      The issue is when you share a link to someone through something else, like discord or any other form of messaging system.

      Also the whole search engine thing is gonna be a big issue

      • LachlanUnchainedEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Others could integrate if they chose to. But no urgency.

        I think working on standardising Lemmy itself will be a good start.