Suppose someone sent you a lemmy link like this: lemmy.example.com/post/12345.
Now, you have an account on another instance called lemmy.test, also logged in and want to comment. But opening the original link lemmy.example.com/post/12345 still treats you as being unlogged, because it looks logins from lemmy.example.com, not lemmy.test or any other federated instances.
The solution, for now, is to use the search* function from your instance (lemmy.test) by pasting the original link (lemmy.example.com/post/12345). That gives you a URL that’s compatible with your login inside your own instance: lemmy.test/post/98765.
You can do this (or rather, have to do this) with communities or user links too.
I heard there are browser extensions doing this automatically, but haven’t tried. Mobile apps should have better support.
* Edit: I remember being able to do this but now its not working. Perhaps something changed? I recommend using browser extensions or mobile apps that should take care of this automatically.
there are browser extensions doing this automatically
I don’t think that’s technically possible, or it would require a substantial effort. Comments and posts are stored with an instance-specific ID. There is no nice way to determine if this ID matches an ID on another instance.
I would be very happy to learn I’m wrong on this one. So if anyone knows a solution, please let me know.
I get irritated when browsing and a message is on another server and it asks me to log in again. Starting to make me mad.
Im new, what do you mean by message being on another server? Do you mean a post?
Suppose someone sent you a lemmy link like this:
lemmy.example.com/post/12345.Now, you have an account on another instance called
lemmy.test, also logged in and want to comment. But opening the original linklemmy.example.com/post/12345still treats you as being unlogged, because it looks logins fromlemmy.example.com, notlemmy.testor any other federated instances.The solution, for now, is to use the search* function from your instance (
lemmy.test) by pasting the original link (lemmy.example.com/post/12345). That gives you a URL that’s compatible with your login inside your own instance:lemmy.test/post/98765.You can do this (or rather, have to do this) with communities or user links too.
I heard there are browser extensions doing this automatically, but haven’t tried. Mobile apps should have better support.
* Edit: I remember being able to do this but now its not working. Perhaps something changed? I recommend using browser extensions or mobile apps that should take care of this automatically.
I don’t think that’s technically possible, or it would require a substantial effort. Comments and posts are stored with an instance-specific ID. There is no nice way to determine if this ID matches an ID on another instance.
I would be very happy to learn I’m wrong on this one. So if anyone knows a solution, please let me know.
Yes