Fediverse

35195 readers

234 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Posts must be on topic.
Be respectful of others.
Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Which instance should i choose when i share a link? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

26 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Let's say:

I am on instance A.
I browse on a community that is on instance B
a user from instance C post something on that community B.

Now i want to share a link to this post. Which instance should i pick?

A my home instance
B the community
C the post author

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

IMO link B is the “most original” one. Sort of like an “authoritative source”, if you will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you post something, it is first posted to your own instance, then sent to the community, then the community sends it to its subscribers.

The authoritative source is always the one the originating user is from in ActivityPub.

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

Interesting.

Relying on your intuition really is no substitute to actually looking things up. If I had a tattoo on the back of my hand, it should say something like that, so that I won't forget it. Keeps happening all the time.

On the other hand, the internet is always more than glad to correct my mistakes, so I still see this mess as a win-win for everyone.

load more comments (1 replies)