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Instance-Agnostic Post Links? (lemmy.calebmharper.com)

submitted 1 year ago by mrcarrot@lemmy.calebmharper.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Lemmy is nice and provides almost all of the features from Reddit that I care about, but it's jarring whenever I tap/click on a post link and it opens in a different instance. Is there a way to link to a post such that it will open in whatever instance the user is on?

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[–] mrcarrot@lemmy.calebmharper.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For communities, sure, but if I share this post the link is https://lemmy.calebmharper.com/post/10474, which is obviously not ideal. Same for comments. I am asking if there is a way to share it in a way that isn't instance-specific.

[–] boulderly@lemmyadmin.site 2 points 1 year ago

btw - you can paste that link into search and it will return you a home instance link to click. So that's a decent work around for now. But I'm all for home instance link rewrites.

[–] gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I know, it is not possible yet due to the underlying implementation