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The way Lemmy handles federation is absolutely horrendous (self.general)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by LodeMike to c/general@lemmy.world

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Seriously, why is nobody talking about this??

URLs are completely useless with each instance applying an opaque, incrementing integer to each post, which is of course different across instances. No way to tell what community it's in just by looking at it, nor any way to recover the content from another instance if the instance in the URL goes down.

Also, if a post is deleted, comments on that post cannot be viewed except on someone's profile.

Like who came up with this? Microsoft?

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

federation is a tricky business. the fediverse ecosystem is still in active development. its still in its infancy. they call it the bleeding edge, cuz it can hurt.

if you want to learn about actual federation challenges, i would check out anything Christine Lemmer-Webber has written on the subject. she has an amazing way of boiling down the technical reasons for things.

[–] LodeMike 1 points 1 week ago

I know. It's fine. I just feel like I'm the one who looks at the URLs.