One of the extremely useful things about reddit was that content was somewhat organized by URL. Each post was created in a subreddit. So you could do websearch like keyword site:reddit.com/r/subreddit

This is more difficult/impossible on the threadiverse.

I am not sure to what extent it is configurable on either platform, but quickly looking I see URLs like this:

  • lemmy: https://lemmyinstance.tld/post/0000000; no community/magazine context is present

  • kbin: https://kbininstance.tld/m/magazinename/t/00000/the-title-of-the-post-is-optionally-included

I like the kbin way of doing this because it provides the possibility of searching as with reddit.

Are there any potential solutions to this problem? I haven’t even mentioned various other hurdles inherent to the distributed nature of the fediverse content. So feel free to enumerate those.

I’m sure I’m not the only one to want this feature. What is the status of it?

  • density@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for sharing! Looks like a lot of agreement and no opposition. Just a matter of getting it done. Hopefully someone who has the skill and time will get it on their TODO list someday.