Connect for Lemmy App @lemmy.ca Chris @feddit.uk 1mo ago

[Feature request] Open as a different user

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.

5 comments

I don't think this is possible
- 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;
  
  Get the "Lemmy link" from the opened post (this is the URL of the original post)
  
  Switch to the other user
  
  Do a search/lookup for that URL
  
  Display it
  
  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.
  
  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.