My main issue with Lemmy permalinks is that they're instance-specific, so to load a comment link on my instance I need to search for it. There needs to be something like ! for communities. Same for post links.
Another issue is that if a commentisn'tf found (deleted, bad link), that isn't handled very gracefully I think. (Don't quite remember how atm.)
Apparently the link switcher extension fixes the issue, even for comments
Interesting, I hadn't considered that before.
Suppose I modified Lemminator's search bar so you could paste a link like https://lemmy.ml/comment/1234 or https://lemmy.ml/post/5678 in it and press Enter to navigate to the relevant comment/post within the web UI. I could automatically infer that these are permalinks from other instances. Would that help at all?
I guess? But the same thing works with Lemmy already, you can search for an url. I don't really know what needs to be done to have instance-agnostic permalinks...
Do you have any opinions on how they should work?
given lemmy's heavy focus on purging a user's content on account delete, I think comment links should include the username.
lemmy.world/the_username@home_instance.tld/comment/xxxx
This also gives self-promotion to the person, a sense of identity on their content.
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