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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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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

nor any way to recover the content from another instance if the instance in the URL goes down.

If you use the post or comment URL in the search bar of your instance, the post or comment will show up locally

Also, agnostic links have been solved and are part of 0.20:

[–] LodeMike 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

So if I take https://lemmy.today/post/20615040 and paste it into the search bar of feddit.org it'll take me to the post?

Edit: Oh good it's being fixed.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Feel free to edit your title, some people don't read posts, and won't see that the issue is being addressed

[–] LodeMike 1 points 1 week ago

"Handles" is a present-tense verb

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Saul Goodman? Cool, now please take back those horrendous things you wrote about Lemmy. /s

[–] 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.