What's a good way of linking content?

[bestzorro@lemmy.world]

If I want to share something I see, what’s a good way of sharing that so if someone opens that link it uses their preferred UI or application?

It’s a bit annoying to open a link and have to find it using my instance’s website to interact with it.

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

Just post the canonical link and let the client handle it.

[muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee]

Yeah. Mind u I fine eternity has issues with some Lemmy instances and newpipe has issues with some peertube instances.

[bestzorro@lemmy.world]

What is a canonical link? Sorry I’m pretty new to the fediverse

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

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.

[bestzorro@lemmy.world]

But what if the content is original? Let’s say I do want to share an orginal lemmy post?

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

Use the crosspost function for that. All the clients I've used have supported it.

[die4ever@programming.dev]

Use this icon on a post to copy the original link of it:

To view such 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)