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How do you deal with being the only one posting in a community (aka "shouting into the void")? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not gonna lie, sometimes it feels a bit lonely. I try to post on a few generic communities

Sometimes I can be the only poster for a few weeks. Makes me requestion the relevance of posting at all. I started posting to [email protected] recently just because at least my posts are widely seen, and other people post there as well.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The other issue is that as Lemmy posts don't have unique URLs that can be used by every instance, you can't just have a megathread with links to discussion threads, as that would work only for one instance

I'm curious as to how Lemmy apps solve this issue (which they seem to have done), and why the web interface doesn't have similar functionality. In Eternity and Thunder, I can tap on a link to a post on another instance, and it opens the corresponding post on my home instance.

Is there some lookup table under the hood to match post IDs between instances? Whatever system apps are using, why would this not work more broadly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I never noticed, guess I'll have to reinstall Thunder.

On browser, there is lemmyverse.link, but

if the site goes down, all your links are now dead
having to select the instance people want to see the link would probably be annoying to most users

I am not sure how apps can do it better than the web UI, but I had a quick look on the Github and that issue is still open: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For now, Lemmy Universal Link Switcher is a great browser script which mostly simulates the functionality of instance agnostic post and comment links. It would be great if the equivalent functionality could be integrated natively into Lemmy though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Indeed!