Instance-Agnostic Post Links? (lemmy.calebmharper.com)

submitted 1 year ago by mrcarrot@lemmy.calebmharper.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Lemmy is nice and provides almost all of the features from Reddit that I care about, but it's jarring whenever I tap/click on a post link and it opens in a different instance. Is there a way to link to a post such that it will open in whatever instance the user is on?

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[-] King@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

There is no easy way to do this. Each Lemmy instance uses their own autoincrement ID for posts. So post 12345 here might be post 54321 on another instance.

It has been suggested that each post gets a universal ID (UUID is an example). Then the local server could just examine the URL and redirect the user to the local post. This suggestion hasn't gotten any traction. The dev team is more focused on fixing the huge performance issues right now.

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023

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