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What does "Copy URL to Fediverse" do? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I see that is copies a shortened version of the link to your clipboard. For example this link:

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/177112/kbin-project-management-costs-financing-future-plans

is copied as:

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/177112

Is that all it does?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's a shorter url for local links, but it's also the actual location of the source of the content.

So for this thread, copy url for me is https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/134107/What-does-Copy-URL-to-Fediverse-do
however, copy url to fediverse is https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/240118

The latter is the url that can be used to load the content on other fediverse platforms. For instance, if I take that url and plug it into the search, it will display the thread: https://fedia.io/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fkbin.social%2Fm%2FkbinMeta%2Ft%2F240118 (edit: this might be a bit iffy. it showed the top thread post before but now it shows a comment inside the thread. I think it's a bit wonky at the moment some times)

I think a shorter answer is: the first url is the location on your instance, the second url is the location of the original content

This is true for profiles, comments, and threads. For instance, I see a lemmy.ca user commented on this thread. Their comment's url to fediverse is actually https://lemmy.ca/comment/1519825 because they are posting on their instance's copy of this thread, so the source of the post is a different server

Edit: This is a little mastodon specific but goes over the concept, especially the last two sections https://fedi.tips/what-are-original-pages-in-mastodon/