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How to refer to posts in an "instance-agnostic" manner? (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by pglpm to c/main

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If I want to link to a community X on a Lemmy instance Y.zzz, I know I should use the link /c/[email protected], which will redirect to the copy of the instance on the server where the user has the account.

What is the analogous way to link to a post? For example this post has address lemmy.ca/post/1866360 but what link should I give to users on another instance, so that they can see the post in their instance?

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[–] corsicanguppy 1 points 2 years ago

Use the post checksum as key info and refer to it at each site by a lookup.

Sadly that means some coding AND database mods.