normalization of URLs across instances?
I'm brand new here, so I apologize if this is already well-trodden ground.
Is there an existing mechanism that would allow to convert URLs that point to a different instance to become instead federated links from the current instance?
For example, at https://lemmy.world/post/503056, there's a comment with a link that points to https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/87275/Wagner-Group-captures-headquarters-of-the-Southern-Military-District-and
Ideally, that URL would be transformed somewhere between its pasting in the original comment and my loading it in my browser into something more like https://lemmy.world/post/502058
Is that something that exists, in whole or in part?
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Short answer is no. We can manage relative links to communities and users right now, but because posts have a different ID depending which instance they're being viewed through it's a bit trickier to figure out a system.
I'm sure the boffins are on it though!
Thanks, I guess that's reasonable.
For now, I'll take a stab at hacking something with some homegrown userscript.
I don't think that can ever be a general solution, but maybe eventually it'll approximate usefulness.