this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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That works for users and communities, not for posts or comments. Posts & comments have different IDs on each instance.
Current best way to do that is to copy the title, go to search on your instance, filter by the community you're looking at, and switch to "Posts" search. Not amazing, but it's the best we got atm.
I'd like to write a browser addon that displays a button in each lemmy instance that when clicked redirects you to the same post in your home instance, so I'm searching for a way to do this unequivocally. there could be two posts with the same title and hypothetically also with the same body, so there must be another way...
That sounds like a very difficult circle to square.
If you notice this icon:
That button takes you to the "original" version, with the ID of that comment/post on the home instance of whoever posted it. I'd start by looking into how that button works on the github page. I don't know typescript, so I don't know where to look there, but it's gotta be coded somewhere
this could be a good point to start from, thanks!