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PSA: You can paste the link to a Lemmy post in the search bar of your instance, and you'll be able to access the post from your instance (reddthat.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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For instance, this one (link to a post to !memes@reddthat.com): https://reddthat.com/post/20260613

Pasting it in your search bar should give you this kind of results:

You can then click on it to access the post from your instance (in this example, lemmy.zip: https://lemmy.zip/post/16918691)

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[โ€“] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like linking is one of the things that is still pretty broken in the fediverse. I'm not sure it's fixable. Ideally, any link would open in a chosen app, on my home instance. And I don't use the same instance for Lemmy, Masto, etc.

[โ€“] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I wonder if it could be something like adding a Link: </post/1234>; rel="activitypub" header or <link rel=activitypub href=/post/1234>. Then a browser (or browser extension) could detect this canonical ActivityPub URL and offer to open it in your configured instance or app. This is basically how RSS feeds work.