How do I open a post on another instance on my home instance?
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?
The key, I think, is to look at posts on your own instance url as much as possible. Like, I subscribed to Lemmy.world@lemmy.world 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?
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.
Ahhhh yep, I was thinking that could be it
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
Whoa this is really amazing!
You should be able to comment and vote directly on the post. You don't need to open it your home lemy server
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
which takes me to the login page of that server, even though I'm already logged into my own.
Edit: nevermind, I see @howdy@thesimplecorner.org '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.
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.
Ah, that adds some useful details -- thanks.
What's the best way to determine whether this has occurred (for a given remote community)?
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 !community@myinstance.ml
Hope that helps