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.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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Doesn't seem to always work
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.
There is no way to do this. It's a requested feature. I'm assuming you mean how if I type something like [email protected] 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.
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
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 :)
Yes the post belongs to the user and the user's instance. The community basically just boosts/retweets the post.