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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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At first I was thinking a GUID might be impossible because of federation, but a simple implementation might be to use the post ID from instance the community lives on
So something like
Display https://lemmy.ca/c/cats/123444 for
lemmy.ca/post/123444
Display https://lemmy.world/c/cats@lemmy.ca/1234444 for
lemmy.world/post/98736
The point of random GUIDs is that there are so many that it's effectively impossible to generate duplicates just by random chance. They'd be perfect for this.
The initial instance picks it, and then the federated instances use it.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cats@lemmy.ca, !cats@lemmy.ca/1234444
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