I tried making the question makes sense.

So I’ll just give an example and my situation:

I’m browsing on fedia.io, clicked open a post that’s from a community on lemm.ee, and it opens through my instance.

Say I want to see that post in a) lemm.ee, b) another instance not the home instance of that post, e.g. ani.social.

How I understand it, I’d have to search go to the instance I want and search the post on /all basically.

Any easier or automated way?

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    5·
    2 days ago

    Since you’re on fedia.io, which runs mbin, I can answer some of that for you.

    Under a post (or a comment for that matter) there is a “More” link. “Open original URL” will open a new tab of that post or comment at the instance the user the post or comment was from.

    So if I Open original URL on this post, it will open a new tab at fedia.io for this post - because you posted it, and you posted it from your fedia.io account, at that instance.

    However, if I Open original URL for the comment by @[email protected] a new tab will open of that comment in this post at lemmy.wtf.

    That’s how that function works, but the reasons you’d actually want to do it are limited. Perhaps the instance you’re viewing the post through is defederated from some other instance, and so you wouldn’t see comments from users at that instance. Opening the post “somewhere else” that wasn’t defederated from the instance you wanted to see comments from would then let you see them - but not interact there, unless you also had an account at that instance.

    So far as I know, fedia.io is only defederated from a very small number of tankie-heavy instances (lemmy.ml and hexbear/chapo.chat are the ones that come to mind). I don’t think the thing you are asking about doing really has a use case.

    • JayGray91@fedia.ioOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      Thanks for shedding light on that feature on fedia. Yeah, I kind of did not find a need to do this. The question just crossed my mind yesterday and somehow I thought I need to know.