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What's a good way of linking content? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If I want to share something I see, what’s a good way of sharing that so if someone opens that link it uses their preferred UI or application?

It’s a bit annoying to open a link and have to find it using my instance’s website to interact with it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just post the canonical link and let the client handle it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What is a canonical link? Sorry I’m pretty new to the fediverse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That means if it's a YouTube video, post the link to YouTube, not invidious or peertube or whatever. If the client wants to load YouTube in the browser, or the app, or revanced, or newpipe, or whatever, let them do that themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But what if the content is original? Let’s say I do want to share an orginal lemmy post?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Use the crosspost function for that. All the clients I've used have supported it.

Assuming you're posting to Lemmy, anyway. If not, you want to hit the fediverse button (rainbow network icon) first, then share that URL. At least that's how you do it in the default web client, yours may be different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah. Mind u I fine eternity has issues with some Lemmy instances and newpipe has issues with some peertube instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To view a link on your own instance, paste it into your instance's search.

Example with a link to a similar discussion: https://lemmy.ca/post/38173834 (paste that URL into your Lemmy's search, like this)

(edit: I've been told that Lemmy is a bit smarter than I thought when doing those searches)