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How to refer to a message in different server? (xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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I saw that messages have different identifiers on different servers. What should I write in my text to make the hyperlink to work on all servers?

https://xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf/post/15
https://lemmy.ml/post/49064481

15 ≠ 49064481

The site https://lemmy.ml/ is unreachable from my computer because of government politics. I want to refer to the copy of message, which is downloaded into my instance. But it have a new ID in my DB.

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

It's just a convenience service. Your original url is right there in the path if it were to go down, and it's open source if you want to run your own.

There's no other way currently to do it

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

    «Your original url is right there in the path if it were to go down» But how it's supposed to help one, to see the original URL? It will help only if the content is archived in some way. If remote lemmy server will go down. Then content will became unavailable, even If I install a local copy of that redirecting engine.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (4 children)

    The point is that it redirects you to the post on your personal interest.

    You can also paste that into the search of any lemmy instance to find it, if they mirrored it

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    You can also paste that into the search of any lemmy instance to find it, if they mirrored it

    Yes, this works. But I don't understand how. The question is - will it work, if remote instance went down?

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