submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If I find a link to a conversation on another Lemmy instance, I can just throw the URL of that into the search on my own instance and I'll get directed to a link that works on my instance.

It seems, however, that if the conversation is hosted in a piefed instance instead of lemmy instance, such a conversion using the search tool is not possible.

Could that feature please be added? There are anyways sometimes links to conversations on Piefed instances, and it's not really visible for a random Lemmy user that it's on a different type of platform.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I was sure that I had done just that, so just tested:

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I cannot get that to work. I tried this link: https://piefed.europe.pub/post/35873 . And no. Nothing.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You're using the wrong URL for searching

it's https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/53225502

Lemmy will fulfill the search requests on behalf of other servers so that normally works, but it seems PieFed does not do that so it's a bit more strict

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Lemmy will fulfill the search requests on behalf of other servers

Yep so does PieFed but Lemmy doesn't accept it for some reason.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

curl -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' https://piefed.europe.pub/post/35873 | jq

This directly sends the object json for https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/53225502 which fails domain validation. Instead https://piefed.europe.pub/post/35873 needs to send a redirect to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/53225502

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I'll try returning a 301. Thanks!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Thank you!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Keep in mind, Lemmy requires you to be logged in for it to pull from remote servers

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