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How do I open a post on another instance on my home instance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So basic usability question here. If I end up looking at a post on a different Lemmy server (say, over at beehaw) and want to comment/vote on it, how can I quickly open it up on my home Lemmy server?

Right now I copy paste the entire title, open my server, search the title, and then find the post. But that seems really cumbersome. Any better way?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The key, I think, is to look at posts on your own instance url as much as possible. Like, I subscribed to [email protected] which is from where I'm seeing your post now, but I'm viewing it while I'm "on" my own instance, that way I'm logged in, and thus able to comment.

I think a question then is how to carry an exact post back to your own instance. I just went out and randomly found: https://latte.isnot.coffee/post/6492

To convert that to a post on my own instance I copy and pasted that url into my search bar back at Lemmy.pro and got:

Then I clicked on the article title there "Favorite Brewing Method" et voila, got that post viewable on my own instance, but without the existing 19 comments showing up:

... and then I myself got stuck and couldn't ever get the comments on the post to load on my own instance, don't know why... ha.... Anyone know how to do that better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Comments don't load/take a while to load sometimes because the architecture is still laggy and servers take time to talk to each other and sync information - this is one of Lemmy's biggest sticking points so far, but it comes with the territory of having multiple decentralized servers constantly exchanging info between them.

It'll be particularly egregious for a while because of the huge influx of people but eventually, with a bunch of stability updates and centralization for the important stuff, the experience should pick up in due time, hopefully.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ahhhh yep, I was thinking that could be it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should be able to comment and vote directly on the post. You don't need to open it your home lemy server

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Meaning that the domain in the browser URL bar will be a server other than one's own home Lemmy server, in this case? If so, I haven't been able to to get this to work; it merely says

You must log in or register to comment.

which takes me to the login page of that server, even though I'm already logged into my own.

Edit: nevermind, I see @[email protected] 's (hmm, how do I tag a user?) post below, which I think was the issue.

Edit 2: sheesh, nope, it's more complicated. I have an account on server A, the community lives on server B, but the post I'm seeing is actually hosted on server C; i'm basically seeing server C's mirror of it. I would, somehow, have to find this post on B (or A, obviously) in order to interact with it, it looks like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your home lemmy instance syncs content from a remote community after the first user on your home instance subscribes to it (except for a very small subset of posts that your homeinstance pulls on subscription). So if the post you are referring too is before your homeInstances first subscription then your sort of out of luck interacting with it. There is also a chance your homeinstance federation screwed up sometime and didn't sync something, I've seen that some (I host my own instance). You could go see the "missing" content that doesn't exist on your homeInstance on any remote instance. However, you are not going to be able to interact with it unless it exists on your home instance.

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

Ah, that adds some useful details -- thanks.

after the first user on your home instance subscribes to it

What's the best way to determine whether this has occurred (for a given remote community)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you see anything of the community on your homeinstance someone has subscribed to it. You can also see subscriber count by searching the community name on your home instance [email protected]

Hope that helps

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You have to first subscribe to it from your home lemmy server.

You can browse all your subscribed communities from remote instances all through your home instance. I am only on remote instances looking for communities to sub to.

I made this script which makes the subbing process a little easier. https://thesimplecorner.org/post/4320

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoa this is really amazing!

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

It's basic but it's made subbing to communities much easier~!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure what you are doing exactly, but I think it is easier than that. I have just been signed in on lemmy.world, and when I browse all communities to look at other sites communities I can interact. I have been able to comment and post in communities on other sites that I am subscribed to.

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