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Screw community names, I want instance agnostic URLs for posts and comments.
Right now
lemmy.ml/comment/123456
andlemmy.ml/comment/123456
are two different comments, and there is no simple way to find one comment on another instance (so you can interact with it from your logged in account). What we should have islemmy.ml/comment/[email protected]
to point to a comment made on another instance, then you can just change the instance name after the@
to find the comment (or post) on any other instance.How can two urls that are exactly the same point to different content?
Perhaps they meant something like lemmy.world for the second URL.
Perhaps
Comment IDs are not unique between instances so you simply cannot change just the part after the
@
to link to the same comment but accessing it from another instance.You can always take the comment’s full URL and put in in the search field of your instance, this will show that particular comment in your instance so you can interact with it from there.