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Is this somehow an intentional choice or a feature? I consider it insane ... (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/9293054 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9620373 https://jlai.lu/comment/6487794

While we're at it, am I missing at instance-agnostic method for linking posts as well?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you’re proposing overhauling the whole architecture of lemmy to use consistent UUID-based IDs for comments, posts, etc. across all instances, that could probably work but there are some edge cases especially with malicious actors, and it would be a huge undertaking.

That was what I was suggesting yeah, version 3-5 look like it could work, you could use the originating server as the name-space, and a local server generated ID for the name. As long as they only use information sent elsewhere the hashes should be reproducible, so you can check that a server is only using it's own name to send new comments/posts, which should protect against the obvious attacks.

The more I think about it I'm not sure you would even need to use an official UUID system actually, just make something like - as the unique ID?

I agree it would be a big change to make though, especially dealing with all the existing posts.