Hello.
I'm extremely tired, so it very well could be that this is extremely simple and I'm just not getting it. However, what I would like to know is how to open a post from a community on one instance on another instance.
For example, here's a recent post from !asklemmy@lemmy.ml. I know that to open that community in the instance lemmy.blahaj.zone, I would merely type into the address bar
lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
However, how would I open that particular post in that community on the latter instance? Is it even possible?
Cheers.
P.S.
I did do some searching on both this community as well as the Reddit Lemmy FAQ page but I didn't find anything. However, I could've missed something. If it's something obvious, I apologize in advance.
Edit: Assuming I understand what people are saying, well, evidently, it seems to be a current limitation of the ActivityPub protocol. Perhaps that will change one day. Hopefully soon. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Drop the permaurl/fedilink into your own instance's search box. Note that you have to be logged in when searching for remote content otherwise it'll silently find nothing, probably to avoid abuse of server resources.
Related minor issue https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2160
And pull request with the fix https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2344 (give a thumbs up or comment if you want to see this fix accepted)
Basically if the colorful fedilink icon is not there then you can just copy the URL from your address bar cause you're already on the local post. Posts are local to the instance of the poster, not the instance of the community.
Here's a couple of feature requests filed for improving the core issue: (give them thumbs ups)
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987
This was all genuinely very fascinating, but now I'm embarrassed because I don't know what a fedilink is. xD
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @Die4Ever I think of a "fedilink" as the canonical URL where the post/comment/toot/video/etc. can be found.
From Lemmy server lemmy.sdf.org: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/8082033
From hachyderm.io (running Mastodon): https://hachyderm.io/statuses/111886790514615908
Each of those servers loaded your comment from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/6238380 (this is the fedilink!)
So the fedilink is the link to the original post on the original instance?
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy Yes exactly :)
Thanks for explaining that!
this colorful icon is the fedilink, the original URL of the post/comment