this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023

23 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

28514 readers

549 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Posts must be on topic.
Be respectful of others.
Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

23

How would share buttons work given lemmy is federated (vs a unique instance)? (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 year ago by Patrizsche to c/fediverse

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

For example in the screenshot (twitch clip), if you want to share on reddit you click the reddit button, but what button are devs supposed to put to share in the fediverse? Do they pick an instance of their choice?! Is this a weakness of a federated platform or what?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Do they pick an instance of their choice?

Ultimately, some user account has to create a post to share something. Each account is tied to an instance, so: Yes.

Through federation, the post is visible to other users on other instances.