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What's a good way of linking content?
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Just post the canonical link and let the client handle it.
What is a canonical link? Sorry I’m pretty new to the fediverse
That means if it's a YouTube video, post the link to YouTube, not invidious or peertube or whatever. If the client wants to load YouTube in the browser, or the app, or revanced, or newpipe, or whatever, let them do that themselves.
But what if the content is original? Let’s say I do want to share an orginal lemmy post?
Use the crosspost function for that. All the clients I've used have supported it.
Assuming you're posting to Lemmy, anyway. If not, you want to hit the fediverse button (rainbow network icon) first, then share that URL. At least that's how you do it in the default web client, yours may be different.
Yeah. Mind u I fine eternity has issues with some Lemmy instances and newpipe has issues with some peertube instances.
To view a link on your own instance, paste it into your instance's search.
Example with a link to a similar discussion: https://lemmy.ca/post/38173834 (paste that URL into your Lemmy's search, like this)
(edit: I've been told that Lemmy is a bit smarter than I thought when doing those searches)
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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