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Blaze (he/him) @feddit.org

Instance agnostic post links?

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As the issue is closed, the feature should be around, and it seems like it is there based on the commit. But if yes, how do we use it?

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  • The next step would be instance agnostic content links. Could probably keep it so instances still serve images/link content but instead of sending out the raw link to clients send em a "lemmy link (https://instance/link/hash" that redirects to the og link where the hash is a value in a DHT for bittorrent. This should avoid breaking most clients while also letting the client bittorrent the content distributing load.

    U could also probably create an option to then use this to serve caches/archived pages instead of the originals making lemmy and the associated distributed torrent data an internet archive of popular links.

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