Right now there seems to be a bit of an issue where if I want to share a link to a lemmy post with a friend, but if we call different servers our “home”, even though both of our “homes” have a roughly similar copy of the same post, there currently is no easy way that I perceive for us to navigate to “our” copy of that post.
This becomes further of an issue when it comes to search engine parsing. For example I use lemmy.world as my “home” server, however when I find information on google it may link to the fedia.io or whatever “sources” link.
For reading this is no big deal.
But if I want to respond to the post, I now need to somehow figure out a way to re-route to the lemmy.world copy of that post to make my submission with my user account.
I think ideally what we need to consider is perhaps one of the following:
A: a browser plugin that can automatically detect and redirect to the matching version of the post for your server
B: OAuth support, so I can OAuth login to any lemmy server with my credentials from my “home” server via an OAuth v2 token
this only works from within lemmy.
The issue is when you share a link to someone through something else, like discord or any other form of messaging system.
Also the whole search engine thing is gonna be a big issue
Others could integrate if they chose to. But no urgency.
I think working on standardising Lemmy itself will be a good start.