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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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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If I want to share a post with someone from another instance, it looks like I have 2 options:

  1. I can share how my instance links to the post, which is the little link symbol.

  2. 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks! Neat trick

Does it mean that when posted, the original copy of the content lies in the poster's instance and not the community's instance? I'll have to learn more about how lemmy works :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes the post belongs to the user and the user's instance. The community basically just boosts/retweets the post.