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Quick question - is there a way to format a link to a lemmy post so it opens through your home instance if you click it? (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverse
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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 ๐Ÿ˜’

Eg, if we could use the [email protected] part with an ID? something like 6769052[email protected] 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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I was disappointed that federation didnโ€™t automatically log you in everywhere like Google across its services, or that you cannot just โ€œlog in with [your home instance]โ€ like OAuth.
(See my other comment for pondering how this could work)

I even tried using my feddit.de credentials (with @feddit.de appended, of course) on another instance, assuming the website code would notice the @ and pass them on to feddit.de instead. @[email protected]

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got very confused and tried clicking all kinds of stuff, ending up with a dozen accounts across the Fediverse. I am not the only one who did, apparently.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You two can stop now. It's not funny.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think full federated auth across servers is a much more difficult problem - it'd be nice but outside the scope of this request!