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

I believe that the original id is stored somewhere as well since there is i fediverse icon that takes one to the original. You can probably use that id when searching your db.

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

    I expected some special syntax like post:id!community@domain

    Or ap_id?post/15@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf

    Here ap_id is the name of part of URI, which maps to
    https://lemmy.ml/post/ap_id
    and performs all the magic, which lemmyverse.link does

    Or https://lemmy.ml/post/49064481?15@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf
    if developers will integrate it into lemmy itself

    ?=post/15@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf - any ap_id

    ?!community@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf - any community
    ?usernick@xn--e1aghfa.xn--e1aqbccjfc.xn--p1acf - any user
    but the last two options are not necessary

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

    in another software it's possible to use:
    p?ap_id@server
    c?conf@server
    u?user@server
    where this local links will be added to URI ending with trailing /

    i.e. https://engine.tld/application/objtype/NNNNNID/
    will be completed with
    https://localserver.tld/applicationname/objtype/NNNNNID/p?ap_id@remoteserver.tld
    https://localserver.tld/applicationname/objtype/NNNNNID/c?conf@remoteserver.tld
    https://localserver.tld/applicationname/objtype/NNNNNID/u?user@remoteserver.tld

    This way the local links will allow to setup redirects to any type of objects.
    (and without the special syntax and special parsing)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago 
    https://localserver.tld/applicationname/objtype/NNNNNID/=ap_id@remoteserver.tld
https://localserver.tld/applicationname/objtype/NNNNNID/!conf@remoteserver.tld
https://localserver.tld/applicationname/objtype/NNNNNID/user@remoteserver.tld

    and distinguish them with regular expressions at reverse proxy...

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I created this topic on my own instance. It knows original ID, but doesn't know ID-s in all other servers in federation.

    I want to write a link in such a way, that lemmy substitute it with the reference to the local copy of message on lemmy.ml server.

    But now lemmy just shows an original link to my server.

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