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

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    ChatGPT and I came up with this bookmarklet which I’m using until this is resolved.

    You set your home instance, then just click it when on a post on another instance. It grabs the post title and the author, redirects to a post search of the title on your home instance, and copies the author to your clipboard to Ctrl-F if there are too many results.

    You have to be pretty quick on the draw to be able to enable clipboard access when using it on a new instance for the first time. So it’s like a game, too.

    javascript:(function(){
      let instance = "lemm.ee";
      const personListing = document.querySelector('.person-listing');
      const author = personListing.getAttribute('title');
      navigator.clipboard.writeText(author);
      alert("Post author copied to clipboard.\n\nCtrl-F + Crtl-V when redirected, if necessary.");
      var title = document.title;
      var lastDashIndex = title.lastIndexOf(" - ");
      if (lastDashIndex !== -1) {
        title = title.substr(0, lastDashIndex);
      }
      var encodedTitle = encodeURIComponent(title);
      let search = "https://" + instance + "/search?q=" + encodedTitle + "&type=Posts";
      window.location.href = search
    })();
    
  • LachlanUnchained
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    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.

    • @pixxelkickOP
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      11 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

      • LachlanUnchained
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        21 year ago

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

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