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?
Well yes but that second link takes me out of my instance and I can’t interact. That’s the point of the question: can I link to an individual submission on another instance without leaving my own instance so that I can interact?
Certainly! Just copy the URL from your browser. It looks something like this for me:
https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/87952
From your perspective it’s:
https://feddit.de/post/1053437
The original which is located on asklemmy@lemmy.ml is here:
https://lemmy.ml/post/1483815
Did I understand your question correctly? I feel like I missed something. It’s new for me, too.
More likely I’m not being clear enough. These links all have an instance hard coded into them so I can’t easily share them with people outside that instance. Right? Or am I not seeing something? What OP and I are looking for is a way to post a link to an individual submission on any instance that anyone can click on, regardless of their home instance, and be able to interact (this presumes their home instance and the target instance are federated, obviously).
Oh, now I get it! Thanks for staying with me and explaining.
That would be a nice feature indeed.