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Links for sidebar? (piefed.social)

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

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I want some links to community posts in my community sidebar (e.g. to posting guidelines, resources etc) but which people can interact with even if they're on a different instance, i.e. comment, vote, etc.

At the moment, I link to the same page twice in two different ways:

plain URL - https://piefed.social/post/992414 (but if they're on a different instance, they won't be able to comment etc)
Lemmyverse.link - https://lemmyverse.link/piefed.social/post/992414 (which is fine, I think... as long as lemmyverse.link exists)

How should I do it?

(This isn't necessarily a PieFed issue, more an entire Fediverse issue. I'm still not 100% clear how to link to Fediverse content in a way that a Fediverse member can actually use.)

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

It's a pain point that comes up regularly.

Maybe you can use the Wiki feature instead? https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-overview

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

Thanks for the link.

Re the wiki feature, can users comment on wiki pages?

E.g. the post currently linked is one that hopefully will get comments from users suggesting further resources.

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

Hum, I'm not sure

@[email protected] ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The way this is kinda solved for communities is by a convention of putting a ! on the start like [email protected]. See how PieFed turns that into a link to https://piefed.social/community/lookup/news/lemmy.world rather than just https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] ? When ! links are used there's a bit of work done behind the scenes to go to the remote instance and import the community from there if PieFed doesn't already know about it already.

We do the same thing for feeds, using ~ instead of !

We could do something like that for posts. Maybe it'd be ^post/[email protected] or whatever.

So it's solvable, theoretically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I was wondering if something like that already existed. Good to hear it could happen, at least theoretically.