I’m just wondering if there’s any strategy to link to a post in an instance agnostic kind of way.
Take for example this post which originates in !lemmy@lemmy.ml.
If someone sent me that link but I did not have a lemmy.ml account, then I can read it but not participate.
If I have an account at lemmy.world then it’s not trivial to find that post on that instance. I can’t just edit the url because the post ID is not the same. I’d have to navigate to lemmy.world/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml and find the post from that feed. This might be possible for recent posts but becomes very difficult with any posts even a little stale.
My understanding of “how lemmy works” is very naive, but I assume it’s not possible to generate UUIDs for posts. That being the case you’d need separate lookup servers that maintain lists of urls for posts and can translate between them.
This is definitely good to know, very helpful information, but it doesn’t really answer my question.
My question is more around whether it’s possible to share a post with someone which will open the post on their preferred instance. Given the other answers here the answer to this is “no”, but I suspect that this will need to be addressed, although I have no idea how.
Even with the above guidance (which is great btw), I still can’t share a post with a non-technical user in a way that they will be able to interact with it, unless they know the above process for finding a post.
Edit: actually I couldn’t get your last 2 steps to work.