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I guess because initially when new instance is created it doesn't know about others. It has no way to tell what ID is used and which isn't.
yeah, which means there's probably a table translating the IDs from other instances to the IDs on the current instance, because there's no way federation could work otherwise. So I imagine the devs could add a function that parses a link like this: https://lemmy.world/post/2084462 and changes it to point to the local equivalent ( https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/995589 for me ) by taking that ID 2084462 and looking it up in that table