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Is there an easy way to share a lemmy thread in a way that's instance-agnostic (they can view it on their instance even if it's different from mine) ?

Similarly, any way to quickly switch to viewing a linked post on my instance if it's linked through another?

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Similarly, any way to quickly switch to viewing a linked post on my instance if it’s linked through another?

Paste the post URL in your instance search bar.

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You're welcome. It's a bit finicky to be honest 😄

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Considering what brought me here, I'll take finicky over maliciously designed any day. :)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago

Sounds good, welcome by the way!

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 15 points 9 hours ago (3 children)
[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

Oh this is nice. Thanks for sharing!

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

Oh, that's really cool! Thanks

[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a way this kind of thing could be worked into lemmy as a feature?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It is part of the Lemmy 1.0 release

https://feddit.org/post/5390705

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago
[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

It's not instance agnostic because the thread lives on the instance of the author. But links in this format: https://lemm.ee/post/57428587 can be put in the search field on any instance and will return the proper post.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

cooooool mbin automatically formats it to a local link: . must be new in v1.80

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 2 points 7 hours ago

That's cool indeed! If it doesn't get in the way with too many links in a post

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Yes, it's a great feature

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

And smart clients/UIs like tesseract realise that the link is to a remote lemmy instance, and then give you the option of viewing it remotely or from your own instances perspective

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 8 hours ago

On Lemmy it always translates a link to a post into your own instance.

!peertube@lemmy.wtf will use Lemmy.wtf for me because that’s my instance.

However, on external sites it’s an issue. Here the link it always static. You can install an addon that automatically redirects you to your own Lemmy instance. I have this on Firefox.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

There is a website that will redirect to the post on your instance but it looks like I did not bookmark it. I expect someone else will chime in with it.