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Global links / Perma-links (self.lemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by huojtkeg to c/[email protected]

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I can share the link of a post like https://lemmy.world/post/58535 but if I change the domain to lemmy.ml it links to a different post.

I understand that the post Id is local but, is there a way to generate a global link that contains the information about the server, community and post?

I think it will be useful to make mirror sites, index in Google, addons to redirect to your Lemmy server...

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[–] huojtkeg 1 points 1 year ago

Balance the load across multiple instances is fine. I don't want the permalink to access the lemmy.ml domain always, it is just in case something happens to the instance lemmy.ml, it will me much easier to replace the domain in my bookmarks.

My feeling is that nobody is thinking about long term storage/search/archival. Lemmy/Reddit is a forum for me and I like to bookmark some posts and revisit them from time to time. In the next months many instances will shut down, accounts, posts, links... will be lost. Having universal URIs is a must and hving some kind of tool to migrate users across servers too.