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Cross Instance Linking (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by b34k to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] b34k 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] PriorProject 1 points 2 years ago

If I really care, I end up either using search from my instance or visiting the community from my instance's community and scrolling back if it's a recent post.

I wouldn't really call it convenient though. You have to really want to comment on that post.