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)_/¯
This was all genuinely very fascinating, but now I'm embarrassed because I don't know what a fedilink is. xD
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @Die4Ever I think of a "fedilink" as the canonical URL where the post/comment/toot/video/etc. can be found.
From Lemmy server lemmy.sdf.org: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/8082033
From hachyderm.io (running Mastodon): https://hachyderm.io/statuses/111886790514615908
Each of those servers loaded your comment from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/6238380 (this is the fedilink!)
So the fedilink is the link to the original post on the original instance?
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy Yes exactly :)
Thanks for explaining that!
this colorful icon is the fedilink, the original URL of the post/comment