• LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net
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    1 year ago

    Looking at my sql databases, I noticed there’s other identifiers on users and content. Not the url.

    It may be that the url is linked to the ID. And that ID can just change.

    I’m pretty much a noob. Just a lurker on the matrix chats.

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      1 year ago

      I’m talking purely from an ActivityPub/Activity Streams/Activity Vocabulary/JSON-LD perspective. There are some other local identifiers for things in Lemmy, but those do not matter for the purposes of federation. Any Object that is federated is expected to have an ID that is a URL at which you can make a GET request with the proper Accept header and you will get the latest version of that Object. AFAIK there is no provision for IDs to change.

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        1 year ago

        Understood. I don’t know how the devs intend to overcome that challenge. If if it’s even a realistic goal. I just know it gets discussed often.