What I do is paste the entire foreign Lemmy instance post URL (like the ones in your post) into the search on my own instance. Lemmy seems to recognize that and return my local instance's copy of that post as the first result. Try it out and see if it works for you. I ran into your post while browsing "new" by the way, I wasn't visiting lemmy.zip.
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Ah, that worked, or at least it worked through lemmy.zip but not old.lemmy.zip for some reason. I did need the entire URL as you said-- dropping the https:// turned up results with this thread and another one where the URL is linked, but not the original URL itself.
Great to hear! Not sure why it wouldn't work in the alternative UI.
For example, someone posted this link (https://sh.itjust.works/post/31943808 ), and it was recent enough that I went to the comm homepage and changed it to .zip from there, but when I opened the thread through .zip it had a different post number (https://lemmy.zip/post/31038821 ) (actually I usually use old.lemmy.zip but it's the same post number either way).
If it'd been an older thread I couldn't find on the homepage, I'm not sure how to go about accessing it through .zip. Any ideas?
Also as a side note, is there a way to link specific posts with the ! markdown so they open for everyone in their home instance? I know how to link comms with that formatting, like [email protected], but not how to do it for specific posts.
There's a third-party tool you can usually use: https://lemmyverse.link/
So pop the url of the post on the home instance in, and you get https://lemmyverse.link/sh.itjust.works/post/31943808
Once you've set your home instance, it will divert you to the home instance's post.
Unfortunately there isnt a way that i know of that lets you do it in lemmy. I think adopting sharing links via lemmyverse.link is the way forwards at the moment.
It doesn't work with frontends sadly though :(