b34k

joined 1 year ago
[–] b34k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, logged out is the wrong term. You're just interacting with a page where you're not logged in... so let's say you want to reply with your own comment.... how do you find the version on your instance?

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too... I don't control what instance others are on who see my links... but I'd like to be able to link them things in a way that's user friendly for them to follow and participate on.

If Lemmy as a whole grows, I could see almost anyone in a given post/thread being from different instances...

 

So lets say my home instance is Instance A, but I'm browsing Community 1 in Instance B. Now in that community I see a comment that I want to reply to with a link to a comment I saw in Instance C, community 2, just because I think it's the most relevant to the discussion.

If I use the URL from the 2 chains "link" icon, that will send users to https://instance.a/comment/####### on my home instance. So that will send anyone from another instance who follows my link, to my instance and log them out of their account....

If I use the URL from the rainbow network "link" icon, it will send the user to https://instance.c/comment/#######, thus logging them out of their account on their instance (unless instance c happens to be their home).

But what about users coming across the conversation from Instance B? Or Instance D or F, or H? Is there a way to format the URL for that link such that anyone can follow it without moving to another instance, and/or logging out of their home instance?

This feels to me like it would be an important core feature of a platform like this.... otherwise when sharing ideas, usability becomes... challenging.

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha, me neither... I'm gonna post it to AskLemmy

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Whelp, this begs another question... how do you link to a post in another instance such that anyone can follow without getting logged out of their current account/instance?

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How often is this updated? I've joined a few in the past 24 hours that aren't listed on this aggregator.

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just keep posting here... More will come if we provide them a reason to

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As cool as this decentralized approach to social platforms is, I have a hard time really seeing it going mainstream. There's too many barriers to entry (both physical and conceptual) for the average user

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just downloaded it today... a bit barebones at the moment, but it's a start!