I’d like to see an option to open a particular post as a different user. Mastodon clients have this and I find it pretty handy.

ie. Clicking the menu on a post should have “open as” which then lets you select one of your other logged in identities, and switches back to the post from that account.

  • ChrisOPEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Should be. I know the URLs don’t match up, but you can do a search for (what Connect shows as) “Lemmy link” from another instance.

    So you would;

    1. Get the “Lemmy link” from the opened post (this is the URL of the original post)
    2. Switch to the other user
    3. Do a search/lookup for that URL
    4. Display it
    • ChrisOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I was trying this manually from Connect, but it looks like searching for a URL doesn’t work through the search interface there, so I can’t test it. Should work though, as those searches are OK through the web interface.

    • YourPrivatHater@ani.social
      1·
      5 months ago

      The URLs Don’t match, not even the post id’s are the same. This would be a big point of failure. Especially when its on different instances. The steps you made have the key issue in step 3, thats not possible.

      • ChrisOPEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        It is possible.

        Search for the “Lemmy link” URL. Works on the web interface, no reason why it won’t work through the API too: (it’s the same theory as doing community lookups)