It makes it very hard to share lemmy and get more friends involved when I can’t actually link the main instance :(

  • sibachian
    10·
    3 years ago

    it’s probably the .ml domain. they should change it. i wonder of they own lemmy.social? would be good since most of the fediverse uses .social as the primary domain :)

    • Evan
      4·
      3 years ago

      You can’t just change a federated domain

        • OrangeSlice
          3·
          3 years ago

          It’s a technical thing that someone can probably explain in more detail, but once other instances start pointing toward your posts on lemmy.ml or whatever your domain is, then changing your domain later on will break that at minimum (there are probably worse consequences, but like I said I don’t know everything under the hood)

          • sibachian
            2·
            3 years ago

            so the choice is either break some older data, or be permanently at the disadvantage of a flagged url?

            • OrangeSlice
              1·
              3 years ago

              Idk enough about DNS and reverse proxy but maybe you could set up an alternate domain that redirects to the same exact site?

        • Evan
          2·
          3 years ago

          See other thread you commented on

    • jackalopeOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Yeah but I also want to share specific communities. I’m in a bunch of coops and union focused groups on facebook so I’ve been trying to get people to join lemmy and contribute their links. People who run cooperative economy programs that might be interested in letting people know about grants and stuff, but I think they’re put off at least in part by the friction of linking them etc.

  • Ninmi@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    3 years ago

    lemmy.ml faces a fair bit outside resistance (I still can’t access my account as emails have not worked for months), but that’s really where federation should come in. It doesn’t have to be lemmy.ml, and shouldn’t always default to lemmy.ml.

  • Arthur BesseA
    1·
    3 years ago

    It would be nice if there was a simpler way to find alternate URLs for a given post on federated instances, which would make it easy to circumvent domain bans elsewhere when sharing a link

    For instance, this post has this URL here on lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/175984

    I can manually edit the URL for the community it is in to go from https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support to https://lemmygrad.ml/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and then browse around there to find this post, and now I know that the lemmygrad URL for this post is https://lemmygrad.ml/post/131812 - but is there not an easier way?

    This is also an issue when I discover a lemmy post on another instance via an external link. Before I can comment on the post, I have to go through the above process to find the URL for it on this instance where I have an account.

    • Arthur BesseA
      3·
      3 years ago

      I just realized it is actually a bit easier than that to go from a post’s home instance URL to one of the foreign instance’s URLs - search works for that. Eg, if I search for https://lemmy.ml/post/175984 on lemmygrad I find https://lemmygrad.ml/post/131812. However, search doesn’t work for finding the original URL if I only know the post’s URL on a federated instance.