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If you look next to the user's name in a comment when viewing through the Lemmy Web UI you'll see the following: What is this?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

??? Why don’t you tap it and see.

I did try that. Nothing appeared to happen, or change on my end; however, I now realize what the issue was. The first thought that I had, when I first noticed that Icon, was actually the exact same as that which you said; it just never occured to me that I could be on the same instance as the comments in question. So, when I tried clicking that icon, I was clicking it on a post that was from Lemmy.world -- the same instance that I am on. As such, I noticed no change in the displayed content -- the page would appear to load, but nothing would actually change. This is, of course, to be expected -- I just didn't put 2 and 2 together. I apologize if my inquiry seemed lazy, or thoughtless.

As an aside, In my defence, the UI also doesn't necessarily tell you what the icon does. If you hover your mouse over it, you will see the following:

Imo "link" isn't exactly descriptive, as to the button's purpose.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apologize if my reply came off harsh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the apology 😊 I can understand how my post could've been construed as being lazy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Under some circumstances it gets called fedilink instead, and sets it as the page's title. I don't know what those circumstances are but I do know lynx meets them.