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

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 [email protected]. 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/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I agree with @[email protected]; thank you for this. :)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months 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.