Thanks! So like @Andrew_s@piefed.social then... eventually:-).

Wait... there are non-bouncing shades!?!?

I tried replying to you a bit lower down in the thread - see where I tried to mention you in my response to db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

It did not work well at all:-(. I see this error when I click on the resulting link (which PieFed seemed to render as https://piefed.social/community/lookup/rimu/piefed.social):

The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

(& !rimu@piefed.social - we'll see if notifications like this work here as well!:-P)

Yes db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com your idea would be better than it is now - the benefit would be to allow someone to reply to comments on that post, with an account based on PieFed rather than needing to create one on a remote instance. Although even Lemmy does not have this capability (afaik?) to retrieve posts from a remote instance, so there is no "expectation" that it be provided.

Just to reiterate: if the retrieval function was to either be enhanced to work fully & properly, or else to go away entirely - or at least be de-emphasized (right now it seems available from almost every page across the entire piefed.social site?) so that common users (like me!:-P) don't just play around with it willy-nilly and generate such partial (mis-)information postings - then either way that would solve the problem.

The problem, imho anyway, is the presence of the partial information, which is so confusing to people. But again: if the retrieval function was simply not present at all, that does not seem all that "bad" to me? (especially since, again afaict, Lemmy lacks it too, at least for non-admins)

And I can't really speak to Rimu's comment about whether it's "cheating" to use the API, except naively to say that doing something all of once upon a special request each time might not be all that bad? Though that's still code to have to write, test, deploy, investigate for potential exploits, etc., and I am not sure how commonly people would really want to make use of it? Although if they did, I could see someone wanting to get e.g. all of the posts for the past several months for a community that nobody has previously subscribed to on a PieFed instance. But that's a lot of effort for seemingly little gain? Purely from an end-user perspective, I would rather see things like adding a Preview option to comment replies and/or making the replies to comments be in-line in the sam epage (especially since after you do something, like perhaps editing a reply, the web UI deposits you to a different page than where you started, and you have to go hunt for the reply you just worked on, possibly having to delve deeper into the comment chain i.e. so that a browser "find" may not work, just to see how your comment ended up being rendered; e.g. I've made comments where the image was not rendered correctly, or just this morning I noticed that my mobile browser had put a space between the [url display text] (https://actualurlhere.com) - so this is a common item that I end up having to deal with multiple times a day and sometimes multiple times per hour; while in contrast, I virtually never need to see an old post and reply to it; so while the presence of the misinformation is confusing and I hope can be dealt with sooner, the expansion of the retrieval function is a significantly lower priority issue - again, just imho, in case it helps to hear from a fresh POV:-D)

Star Trek always had the best hats. Unless you were Michael Dorn and then the costume staff seemed to have a grudge against him or sumthin'.

Edit: bonus

Tbh, no I don't recall it!? :-P All I got is this oldie...

Just look what the tribbles have done to this poor, poor man!? Well, I guess he's rich in tribbles:-).

Just don't get

in it!:-)

Uh you don't mean...

Oh ahem Star Trek right...

My take-away here: sometimes diversity demands that we go beyond Star Trek for the sake of the joke? 🤣