(sorry about the colors not matching)
Shoutout to !europe@feddit.de for people curious about the reasons behind the votes differences: https://lemmy.zip/post/17100617 (you can copy paste this link in your search bar to get it, I would usually provide a feddit.de link, but the instance front-end is still down)
you can copy paste this link in your search bar to get it
I never realized you could do this - feels like the frontend should just do the search and find the local post automatically when you click the link?
You’re not the only one who tell me this, I’ll post this in !fediverse@lemmy.world.
Your suggestion makes sense, but I guess that’s an improvement in the backlog
We’d need some special syntax for fedi post links then, like there is for mentioning Lemmy communities. Otherwise there’s no way to know, if e.g. https://programming.dev is a Lemmy instance or some other random website.
Any sort of !fediverse.link should just automatically be translated into whatever instance & software you’re using imo.
Do we though? Couldn’t it just do the search and if nothing comes up, then follow the link? Also does it only work for other Lemmy instances or does it also work for Mastodon posts or other fediverse services?
Well, yeah, you could rewrite every link that’s displayed. So, if someone links to
https://the-link-you-want-to-go-to.com/, then your instance would basically make that link instead point tohttps://your-instance.com/outgoing?url=https://the-link-you-want-to-go-to.com/.And then your instance’s server would do the check and redirect you accordingly.
But the downsides are then:
- It’s slow. Instead of links opening directly, all of them need to redirect first.
- It increases the server load.
- It allows instances to track which links you click on. (And this is what such link rewriting is often used for. People here would absolutely riot.)
And well, in theory there’s nothing stopping Lemmy from displaying posts from Mastodon or other Fediverse services. You can just request their data from the federated server via ActivityPub.
In practice, though, it’s not always easy to display these posts in the UI of a different service. For example, Mastodon posts only show up on Lemmy, if the person who created the post tagged a specific Lemmy community, because you kind of want them to show up as part of a specific community.
On the other hand, Kbin is a piece of software that federates well with Lemmy, because they offer a similar user experience, and of course a lot of development time got invested into ensuring compatibility.
Federation with other Fediverse services are not supported yet, to my knowledge.Federation with other Fediverse services are not supported yet, to my knowledge.
Mastodon-like (so all the Misskey forks) work too. Friendica too.
Federation should work to some extent to any ActivityPub-supported app. There are others than kbin and Mastodon and I have seen some users on other platforms, like piefed.
So quick info, who are these parties and any idea why (and with how much coincidence) this divide exists?
AfD is Alternative fur Deutschland, a far right party. This divide is present ever since the division of Germany into East and West Germany and persists to this day despite the fact that the wall fell in 1989. It is definitely not coincidence that there is a political and demographical divide.
Looks like the soviets did a poor job of raising the east.
