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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Most apps handle it internally, but if you're on the web browser you can use the Instance Assistant extension to do it for you. It adds a little "open post in home instance" button

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Instance Assistant

Nice! Installed!

Thanks. :) Kind of makes me think of a Reddit Enhancement Suite–type app but for ActivityPub. Haha.