For example, this comment links to another community on another instance, but when clicked on, you’re not actually able to interact with anything on that community, because you’re suddenly not logged in.

It’s doesn’t function like linking to a subreddit, and I understand that that’s because of federation, but is there a better way of doing this? It seems… very stupid that linking to a page would suddenly “log you out” for all intents and purposes, while searching that same community wouldn’t.

Does this make sense?

    • Tarte@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The feature exists in the fediverse, but I don’t know if or how it’s implemented in Lemmy. I’m using Kbin and there is a button called “copy url to fediverse” (for comments and posts/threads):

      Your comment: https://feddit.de/comment/508518

      This post/thread: https://lemm.ee/post/288327

      So basically, each entry has a unique ID and home instance that you can use to build a link to the “original”.