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How to make an instance-independent link to a post or comment? (lemmy.click)

submitted 1 year ago by Spzi@lemmy.click to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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There are instance-independent links to communities, for example: FindAKbin@kbin.social.

The good thing about it is, it will keep you on your home instance logged in while visiting the target.

How to make a similar thing to link to specific posts, or specific comments?

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[–] mermitian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You cannot really do this yet, the closest thing is taking the federated url and using the search function of your instance. Which, I think, only works if the content is already federated.

I’m slowly working on a website that can do this automatically, by using the API to look up the content on your instance of choice