I notice often people might cross post something and say (for instance) cross posted from https://lemmy.ca/post/1916492 (random example which is the link that I just followed)

Is there any way to format a link like that so your home instance will just open it up so you’re still logged in and can interact with it?

The link I followed goes to the Canadian lemmy server but it’s actually looking at a post from beehaw.org, so it’s extra useless 😒

Eg, if we could use the !technology@beehaw.org part with an ID? something like 6769052!technology@beehaw.org and our home instance could parse it to a link, with some tools to make it easy to add?

EDIT: This isn’t a feature, but there is a github issue feature request at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987 for exactly this

EDIT 2: appears to be a userscript solution, but i haven’t tried it. lives here though: https://git.kaki87.net/KaKi87/userscripts/src/branch/master/fediverseRedirector/README.md

  • dbilitated@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    ok sounds like it’s not a feature - the link format i suggested includes both the instance ID and the instance url, so it would be possible for your home server to use that to preprocess to a useable link. I wonder if there’s a suggestions box 🙂

    • marsara9@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I just got a PR merged today that might help with this. I’ll start experimenting with it more over the next week or so.

      Basic theory is that I can detect at least lemmy posts in the comment bodies and then rewrite those to your local instance. Primarily question is going to be performance, as remote network calls will be necessary.