If you’re submitting it to Lemmy as a post (or Reddit, if you still use that), just don’t share the short URL at all. Get the full www.youtube.com/watch?v=
link for maximum compatibility with cross-post detection.
Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
If you’re submitting it to Lemmy as a post (or Reddit, if you still use that), just don’t share the short URL at all. Get the full www.youtube.com/watch?v=
link for maximum compatibility with cross-post detection.
Change it to /watch?v=
to have the normal standard YouTube URL. Since comments have no such detection, feel free to use the short URL there.
Yes, and avoid the youtu.be short links for the same reason.
Because it kinda harkens back to old school blogs, where each person had their own personal blog that they managed themselves, but they would often be part of a community of like-minded blogs which would link through to each other.
I suspect this is unlikely to take off with Fediverse enthusiasts unless they open source it, or at least have some way people can self-host it and make a micro blogiverse.
It looks like they had plans to do that at one point. Unclear whether they still plan to do it. Tumblr and blogging honestly seem like the most natural fit for federation. More natural even than Twitter or Reddit. It’d be great to see them do that.
I guess I should count myself lucky that I still have no idea what this means?
I’m a cat person, anyway.
If you include podcasts, which are delivered via RSS by definition, undoubtedly RSS is more popular than ever.
It’s a little disingenuous to do that though, so in this context we probably shouldn’t count it.
Pretty sure they went with .ml not for price reasons, but because they liked to pretend it stood for their political ideology.
Oh good, it should be coming in 0.18.2. Nice.
You’re probably looking at the rainbow pentagon button, which behaves as you describe. There’s also a kind of chain link button. That one should take you to the context within your own instance. At least on web that’s how it works. Different apps may display differently.
Yeah I think the main actually viable use case for the fact that Lemmy and Mastodon can cross-interact is just when a Mastodon user gets @mentioned on Lemmy and is able to reply to it from there. And vice versa. You don’t want to actually be browsing Lemmy from Mastodon.
there is no way to link a post or comment that is instance relative / instance independent
I’m commenting mainly as a reminder to myself to check back later if someone comes in with a correction.
That said, the answer to this in the long term should be for the front ends (Lemmy UI, Jerboa, Sync for Lemmy, etc.) to be smart about this. My Mastodon app, Megalodon, does it. If you click a link to a post in another instance, it automatically looks up the same post from your instance and takes you there. It’s a little slower (and Megalodon shows you a button to short-circuit it and just go to that URL if you don’t care to be on your instance), but it lets you interact with the post as normal.
Google+ was better. The concept of “circles” being the primary way of interacting with people was ingenious and far better represents how real people interact. My fencing friends are not the same as my RPG friends who are not the same as my family.
Facebook adopted this with “lists”, but they’re not treated as the core part of the experience that G+'s Circles were, so they don’t get used.