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Changing accounts before posting or upvoting (reddthat.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by caseinpoint@reddthat.com to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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I have multiple accounts that I use and I would like to know or change which account I'm posting from or up/down voting from without having to start from the default view of my account.

When I do this I have to go find that post again it I have to go find that community again so I can post.

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Can we get options to switch between accounts in more places so we can keep our current view?

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[–] caseinpoint@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't the app already have my cached account instances? Could it initiate through each of those instances to find the proper URL?

Sorry if I don't understand the limitation. It looks like from other replies that Fedilab appears to do this in some aspect.

[–] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't really use Mastodon, but I jumped on a couple instances to check the process of finding the post on a different instance. The posts in mastodon again have a different URLs to the same post on different instances just like Lemmy does so I just I wanted to figure out how they did it. It was simple and intuitive.

e.g. I may be browsing a post on mastodon.social while logged in to mstdn.social account and want to switch to an account on mastodon.world before replying.

in (https://mstdn.social/@wonderofscience@mastodon.social/110678720030292635)

click the elipsis ...

Copy link to post

This copies the link to the original post in its original instance (https://mastodon.social/@wonderofscience/110678719111063776)

Now I can go to mastodon.world and search the link we just copied. This gives one result which contains the post: (https://mastodon.world/@wonderofscience@mastodon.social/110678720000699504)

*Note: it seems you have to be logged in to the Mastodon instance for the search to work. *

Now you should be able to reply from that instance. I suppose these are the steps that the Fedilab takes for switching accounts.

I was scratching my head why searching this post from lemm.ee (https://lemmy.ml/post/1769528) wasn't working for me. Then it hit me, the post original instance is based on the poster, not the community. There is even a Fediverse star that gives you the link to the original post which is actually (https://reddthat.com/post/326735).

You can actually search (https://reddthat.com/post/326735) in the instance that you want to post to and it will be found using the search bar. It's just not as fast as Mastodon. I have convinced myself that this isn't as big as a limitation as I thought, it just isn't as trivial as a simple URL change.

[–] wonderofscience@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@rooster_butt @caseinpoint btw, your post showed in my mention notifications on mastodon.social

[–] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's amazing. I guess I still have a lot to learn about the Fediverse. I didn't expect the post url link would ping you but that may be because your username is part of the post url. I picked the first mastodon post that I enjoyed as an example.