How to open a particular POST on a different instance? (self.lemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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)_/¯

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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it's what I think you're asking, you would go to the instance that you want to open the post on and do a search for that title, with the search type as "posts". The instance you're on has to look it up because everything isn't automatically on another instance. Also, both instances have to be federated to each other. I personally, haven't had good luck by doing the generic address way of posting.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 6 points 1 year ago

The parent's text in visual form:

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree with @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works; thank you for this. :)

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for doing that, it probably was confusing the way I described it.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yea I think this is the correct answer.

I don’t know for sure, but I think this question has come up before, maybe written up as an issue on GitHub (worth a check).

Essentially, I think it is a missing feature at the moment. And same goes for comments.

The solution would probably be that all content is stored in the DB along with its original address and its current address on the instance it’s being viewed from. I’m betting that wasn’t done from the beginning and so to add it would require a schema update. I’m not sure I see any reason why it’d be too hard to add. Might be a good feature for a community member to add if they’re up to it.

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for explaining all this. Sounds fascinating to me. I do appreciate you going out of your way to do that. :)

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

No worries!

I am just guessing here though.

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 2 points 1 year ago

Wow. Seriously, that is a...pretty massive hole in feature-set for a link-sharing platform. And I say that lovingly toward Lemmy.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

When they get the kinks worked out and people spread throughout all of the instances, Lemmy is going to be great for everyone.

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, I expect kinks. That's a natural part of the nature of what the fediverse is right now. I just think this is a pretty glaring gap; I hesitate to call it a "basic feature", but I'd say it's close... :/

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Fair point, I agree.

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