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How do I share a post or comment to someone on another instance so they can view it from their account? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by john89@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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If I want to share a post with someone from another instance, it looks like I have 2 options:

I can share how my instance links to the post, which is the little link symbol.
Or I can click the federated symbol and that apparently shares a link from the poster's instance.

In both cases, whoever I share the link with is unable to view that post from their account if they're on another instance. Is there a way to alleviate this?

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 points 3 weeks ago

Paste the URL in the search bar, it'll fetch it locally on your instance and get you there. No need for link guesswork to find it on a particular instance.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://lemmyverse.link/

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This is neat, but for some reason it doesn't keep me signed in if I try to access a link from my home instance.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

There is no way to do this. It's a requested feature. I'm assuming you mean how if I type something like !linux@programming.dev it will make a link that when you click it, it takes you to your instance's view of it so you can comment and stuff. There's no way to do that for posts and/or comments, sadly.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Make sure you use the original link of the post and not your local version.

Use this icon on a post to copy the original link of it:

The original url will be the same domain name as the poster's instance. For example your post is: https://lemmy.ca/post/38173834

And my comment is: https://programming.dev/comment/14642812

To view such a link on your own instance, paste it into your instance's search, like this.

This feature request would make it easier: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

Also: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318

Give those Github feature requests thumbs up reactions so the devs know to prioritize them.

Seems like this also improves the situation and might be launching with v0.20 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5057