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normalization of URLs across instances? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm brand new here, so I apologize if this is already well-trodden ground.

Is there an existing mechanism that would allow to convert URLs that point to a different instance to become instead federated links from the current instance?

For example, at https://lemmy.world/post/503056, there's a comment with a link that points to https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/87275/Wagner-Group-captures-headquarters-of-the-Southern-Military-District-and

Ideally, that URL would be transformed somewhere between its pasting in the original comment and my loading it in my browser into something more like https://lemmy.world/post/502058

Is that something that exists, in whole or in part?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Short answer is no. We can manage relative links to communities and users right now, but because posts have a different ID depending which instance they're being viewed through it's a bit trickier to figure out a system.

I'm sure the boffins are on it though!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, I guess that's reasonable.

For now, I'll take a stab at hacking something with some homegrown userscript.
I don't think that can ever be a general solution, but maybe eventually it'll approximate usefulness.

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