It often happens that a given lemmy link didn’t match with my own login from another instance. This causes troubles to comment and participate in the thread. This is what I have learned so far. Is there a better method of doing this? Browser extension suggestions are welcome.
Context:
- Have an account
on instancelemmy.testand being logged in - Given a lemmy link
lemmy.example.com/post/12345 - Want to comment as
@username@lemmy.testonlemmy.example.com/post/12345
Expected behavior:
- Opening links from
lemmy.example.comautomatically recognizes login fromlemmy.test, commenting and voting done without problems
Actual behavior:
- Instance
lemmy.example.comexpects logins only from its own server, not other federated servers likelemmy.test
Manual fix (for web browsers):
- Check for the “federation link” (the icon with five-colored star, is there a name for this?) from linked URL’s page. (If the icon does not exist, check Observations below)
- Open “search” from own instance (
lemmy.test> search) - Enter the “federation link” at search bar.
- First result should be a URL that’s compatible with the own instance: e.g.
lemmy.test/post/98765
Observations:
- If the link and its OP shares the same instance domain (
@user@lemmy.example.composting to!community@lemmy.example.com), then the federation link should be the link itself (please confirm if this is actually true). - If not, then the “federation link” has to be obtained.
- INCLUDE HTTPS before domain, otherwise it won’t appear in the search:
https://lemmy.example.com/post/12345OK
lemmy.example.com/post/12345NOT OK
Conceptually, it’s similar to an RSS feed: you can’t give someone a link to a feed that will automatically open in their own feed reeder; they need to go to their own reader first and paste the url there. The only exception is if their browser is configured to recognize feeds and open them in their default reader—and I think that’s going to have to be the solution for fediverse content: browsers will need to be updated, or browser plugins developed.
There are a few browser plugins that do this sort of thing for mastodon. I imagine some dev work would be needed to adapt them for the Threadiverse, but the concept is certainly out there.
