For instance, this one (link to a post to !memes@reddthat.com): https://reddthat.com/post/20260613
Pasting it in your search bar should give you this kind of results:
You can then click on it to access the post from your instance (in this example, lemmy.zip: https://lemmy.zip/post/16918691)
Thanks @SorteKanin@feddit.dk and I think @OpenStars@discuss.online who made me realize not everyone was aware of this
I was also not aware of this. If the Lemmy software can do this, doesn’t that mean there should be a way for apps and web interfaces to do this automatically?
Tesseract has for a while, but I’m not sure which, if any, other frontends do.
I forgot that was even a problem because of it 😂
Eternity and Thunder seem to most of the time, but it occasionally fails, even for non-obscure instances.
Good to know. And just good in general. lol. It was a fairly simple feature to implement, and I was hoping more UIs would adopt something like that.
Yeah it is counter-intuitive to me. e.g. the URL of this actual OP (not the one used in your example, but this meta-one) appearing in my browser is “https://discuss.online/post/8717646”, although its origin is “https://reddthat.com/post/20423663”, and e.g. from Lemmy.World it is “https://lemmy.world/post/16390207”, from sh.itjust.works it is “https://sh.itjust.works/post/20655918”, there’s https://dubvee.org/post/dubvee.org/1318278, and https://lemmy.max-p.me/post/lemmy.max-p.me/1264377, and https://programming.dev/post/15341414, and so on - all with different values.
Yet putting it into the search box manages the translation to find the correct post. There are so many areas of Lemmy that still lack polish - and K/Mbin even more so - but here is a great feature that is there yet people don’t even realize that.
I am curious: how did you even know to try that - is it written in the docs somewhere, or you just tried it and it worked?
Someone else told me this. Seems like it’s kind of a secret Lemmy technique that is passed from person to person ha ha
And now you have shared this with us all, asking for no remuneration just that we use & enjoy, in true FOSS style - awesome!:-)
Someone closer to the developers than you are ?
I mean, I saw it on a post somewhere