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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[-] 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.

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