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?

  • 🇺🇦 seirim @lemmy.proEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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?

    • destructdisc@reddthat.comEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.