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  • Ah must remember wrong or maybe it was proposed!

    Yeah the software would need to know, but in a way “lemmy” knows because it knows which instances your instance is federating with. If your instance isn’t federating with the link target it cant find it anyway.

    Same as the ! Exclamation mark for communities or @ for users it can do a look up (you can put my link to your search input in lemmy and it will find it), but there would be otherways to achieve this too.

    But yeah it would be really nice to have some universal way like the ! And @ signs to point to another fedi post/comment.


  • No problem, I feel like fedistuff is so scattered and hidden that it’s always worth mentioning your favourite tools :)

    The frontends and apps do redirect embedded links in comments no? E.g. if you click this it should automatically use your instance to find the comment (even though its a link to my instance): https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17606535

    Or maybe you mean when you paste an url to the browser that it should automatically redirect to your instance? If so thats tad bit difficult. There was once a post that proposed something like a activityPub/lemmy URI scheme where links would look like this:

    activitypub://<postorcommentidentifier>
    

    But I don’t remember where that conversation led and also I have no idea how feasible that would be.

    Edit: added words




  • I wouldn’t say no one who isn’t running linux isn’t going to see this:

    I know that I switched over to linux because of the sheer amount of advocacy and info posts for beginners on lemmy. I used to only use linux servers at work, but lemmy convinced / helped me to switch fully to linux! :)

    Edit: just to clarify: I mean this post will get shared around on spaces with noobs like me, even if its on peertube and im not “on it”



  • Based on the README and that article, the founder sounds like he is deep into conspiracy theories and is an anti-vaccine MAGA person.

    Not to downplay the problems on xorg and I am happy it’s getting forked, but wtf is up with “No DEI” “Make X great again” in the README… Doesn’t convince me at all that this project is going to stay intact and upkept on the long term.

    Edit: added some words

    Edit2: yeah okay, he’s a complete nutjob and a shitty person. See link below





  • Tech companies turned the GDPR into a daily nuisance rather than a shield for people.

    Exactly. So many companies wanted to make it look like “this annoying popup is here because of EU. We want to offer you a big fat ALLOW ALL to make it simple for you… Don’t mind what it means… If you wanna know you are welcome to read this bullshit generic law text that probably has mistakes in it but you wouldn’t know because you just want to read some small text snippet here and don’t want to get into it”.