this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
15 points (100.0% liked)

Lemmy

12548 readers
50 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
nutomic@lemmy.ml
15
Pre-fill Create Post From URL (eventfrontier.com)
submitted 1 year ago by fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Does Lemmy have anyway to pre-fill the Create Post details from the URL? For example Reddit allows for: https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F24823114%2Fpost-to-reddit-via-url&title=Post%20to%20Reddit%20via%20URL.

I'm aware that this gets slightly tricky across instances (due to different domains), however I was hoping to build a system where the user enters their Lemmy domain, and it takes them to a page so they can create a post about a given URL.

Any ideas?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com 6 points 1 year ago

For Mastodon there is something called Tootpick which allows you to enter your server's domain and share any content by redirecting the user. For example: https://tootpick.org/#text=https://eventfrontier.com/post/37808. So I'm not quite sure the federated nature argument makes sense. Sure it's more complicated that a centralized system, but possible regardless.