I see that is copies a shortened version of the link to your clipboard. For example this link:

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/177112/kbin-project-management-costs-financing-future-plans

is copied as:

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/177112

Is that all it does?

  • e569668@fedia.io
    8·
    1 year ago

    It’s a shorter url for local links, but it’s also the actual location of the source of the content.

    So for this thread, copy url for me is https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/134107/What-does-Copy-URL-to-Fediverse-do
    however, copy url to fediverse is https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/240118

    The latter is the url that can be used to load the content on other fediverse platforms. For instance, if I take that url and plug it into the search, it will display the thread: https://fedia.io/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fkbin.social%2Fm%2FkbinMeta%2Ft%2F240118 (edit: this might be a bit iffy. it showed the top thread post before but now it shows a comment inside the thread. I think it’s a bit wonky at the moment some times)

    I think a shorter answer is: the first url is the location on your instance, the second url is the location of the original content

    This is true for profiles, comments, and threads. For instance, I see a lemmy.ca user commented on this thread. Their comment’s url to fediverse is actually https://lemmy.ca/comment/1519825 because they are posting on their instance’s copy of this thread, so the source of the post is a different server

    Edit: This is a little mastodon specific but goes over the concept, especially the last two sections https://fedi.tips/what-are-original-pages-in-mastodon/

  • Chris@rabbitea.rs
    3·
    1 year ago

    It copies a permanent link to the post (link to the original post), rather than one local to your instance. This can be pasted into eg. Mastodon search to find the post.

    • readbeanicecream@kbin.socialOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      So a permalink. Sounds like the menu item should say “Copy Permalink.” “Copy URL to Fediverse” makes it sound like if I click that link it gets exported, auto-posted, or sent to other fediverse instances automatically.

      • losttourist@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I imagine it’s just poor translation. English isn’t Ernest’s first language, and although he speaks it very well it’s very clear from looking at some of the less-commonly-used parts of Kbin that some terms seem to have been translated directly from their original Polish without strong consideration about whether they remain as easy to understand their meaning.