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.
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