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Just tried this on Sync, although lemmy.world itself was too flaky to let me reply on there (I think, sorry if this is a dupe).
During that brief wheel-spinning, Sync fetches a local version of an absolute link (a 'https' link to a Community or a post). This is very impressive in a way, and if all mobile apps and browser front-ends did this, we'd barely need the ! type links at all. As it is though, Sync has just casually reinvented a Fediverse concept that's been there since the beginning (which is a bit rude, although for posts definitely an improvement)
Yeah, and ironically Sync struggles with certain link formats, so it's not perfect yet. But being able to click direct links to posts and open them on your home instance is great.