I started reading the page on lemmy federation details (I don’t know when that appeared, but it’s going to make better AP docs than the RFC, surely), and realised that in fact the @user@instance syntax isn’t even real AP. Now it makes sense.

The followup question then is whether a community and a user can have the same name, because to other AP software they both just become @name@instance. How does that get resolved?

Pretty much all the comments there are pointing out that it’s not a good idea.

citation needed

Thinking about this more, I realised it’s impossible: The link might not even be a lemmy link at all! How am I meant to guess the other node’s API? I’d use federation API, I guess, which I still haven’t found nice docs for.

yun-wuxin:[wisknort]:~$ curl https://beehaw.org/post/125367/comment/32382 -s | grep -Eo ‘.{10}fedilink.{10}’ id=“icon-fedilink” viewBox= ef=“#icon-fedilink”></use><d y"><title>fedilink</title></

Do you mean a blank line? Because I added newlines. Frankly I consider this to be markdown’s fault, because the behaviour is, put simply, retarded. If I want to quote two lines, I will quote two lines. (Worse is the part where a single newline is ignored, but two newlines is two newlines. I just want one newline, thanks.)

Why do you open Lemmy in your browser I don’t.

you can directly connect with your client to the API of any instance The complexity is necessary for this. When given a link, I need to translate it into an API link so I can load the object and grab the ap_id.

If that isnt rendered properly in your browser Lynx. I’ve detailed the problem in the matrix room, basically for some reason it’s in a title element so lynx correctly sets the page title to “fedilink” 100 times.

To my knowledge I’m not a member, but I am interested in a thing like this. I mostly deal in client-server stuff though so my opinion on the actual federation side is largely irrelevant. I suppose this is the only time I’ll concede value in bridging. But on the other hand… Just a collection of communities, one per ecosystem, is probably fine. People will gravitate towards the ones that suit the spaces they exist in. This would be easier with cooperation, eg. every project and instance pointing towards its respective collab space. I say all this but I haven’t paid attention to the matrix room. I set my notifications according to the size of the room, so I pretty much ignore larger rooms. I’d be willing to be involved in the forum if I had a decent client for it; something light that I could leave open on a spare monitor. To my knowledge there are no desktop tapatalk clients, letalone good ones. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while, but well, always more projects… Because, well, without a client: >Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled

Oh, title got munched, heh. I’ll fix that… So basically you’re saying that before resolve_object I should transform it on given instance and load from there, pull ap_id from it and then resolve on that. How annoying, now I have to figure out if I can easily and reliably transform any valid lemmy URL to an API link. Probably yes, regex something like https://[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-\_]+/(.*/?)\w+/\d+ and replace the capture with api/v3. So much for simplicity.