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Finding posts/comments on a different instance (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by yote_zip@pawb.social to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hello!

Is there a way to deterministically find an arbitrary post/comment on another instance? e.g. if I click on Post A on Instance A and I want to see what Post A looks like on Server B, how would I link there?

I assume there's some sort of ID in the backend so that all the servers know which posts match to each other, but is that exposed in the frontend somehow?

Mainly thinking of a way to utilize this in order to have a userscript that can send you back to your home instance if you get linked to a foreign instance's post.

E.g., maybe I could do something like https://myhomeinstance.net/post/lemmy@lemmy.ml/1418036 for this current post

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[–] Edo78@feddit.it 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

first things first can i use my timezone as an excuse for forgetting the uuids?

The whole link from an instance you are not logged in is a PITA. I don't get if I miss some magic URL but right now sharing something requires a search in your instance (as we described) and it's not a user friendly UX Maybe there is some API that search/import something from other instances.

Unless I miss something @username@instance isn't really linked from anywhere but your instance create a local link when you search for it (or when is somehow imported)

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

yeah that about sums it up. I don't know if the technology already exists, or if it would be super annoying to do, but I feel like it should theoretically be possible at some point.

I agree the UX is not excellent. I've wanted to link a comment/post to someone a few times but I didn't want to hijack them into pawb.social and give them whiplash, so I always search for the comment in the original instance first before I link it. It takes a long time compared to just typing a short link that the webui/apps can translate into a magic local link that will auto-fetch when clicked.