It makes it very hard to share lemmy and get more friends involved when I can’t actually link the main instance :(
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 :)
You can’t just change a federated domain
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.
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.
