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use the fediverse icon to get the canonical link to a post (which is option C in your list), you can right click it to copy the link
on piefed.social it's in the overflow menu:
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on Lemmy it's just the icon
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although sometimes I do not grab the canonical link, like if the instance is slow or has poor downtime, I'll use link A or B from your list
(someone should maybe add this info to the Lemmy docs https://join-lemmy.org/docs/introduction.html idk if piefed has similar docs)
Do you know an easy way to retrieve link B? As a piefed.ca user viewing a piefed.social post on a lemmy.world community, I see no easy way to retrieve the lemmy.world link. If no easy way exists, then I guess it settles the B vs. C debate.
I don't think there's a quick way to get link B, but C is literally called the canonical URL. Check the section in the HTML (bottom of the screenshot)
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