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.)
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
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.
Hum, I’m not sure
The way this is kinda solved for communities is by a convention of putting a ! on the start like !news@lemmy.world. See how PieFed turns that into a link to https://piefed.social/community/lookup/news/lemmy.world rather than just https://piefed.social/c/news@lemmy.world ? 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/123@lemmy.world or whatever.
So it’s solvable, theoretically.
I was wondering if something like that already existed. Good to hear it could happen, at least theoretically.
