Let’s say:

  • I am on instance A.
  • I browse on a community that is on instance B
  • a user from instance C post something on that community B.

Now i want to share a link to this post. Which instance should i pick?

  • A my home instance
  • B the community
  • C the post author
  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    8·
    23 hours ago

    use the fediverse icon to get the canonical link to a post (which is option C in your list), you can right click it to copy the link

    on piefed.social it’s in the overflow menu:

    on Lemmy it’s just the icon

    although sometimes I do not grab the canonical link, like if the instance is slow or has poor downtime, I’ll use link A or B from your list

    (someone should maybe add this info to the Lemmy docs https://join-lemmy.org/docs/introduction.html idk if piefed has similar docs)

    • bayleaf@piefed.caEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      Do you know an easy way to retrieve link B? As a piefed.ca user viewing a piefed.social post on a lemmy.world community, I see no easy way to retrieve the lemmy.world link. If no easy way exists, then I guess it settles the B vs. C debate.