• Soullioness
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    161 year ago

    I still don’t understand what it is or why is there…

    • loiakdsf
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      251 year ago

      It points to the lemmy instance the post has been published on. It is useful if you want to share a generic link to a post with someone and maybe don’t want to share the information on what instance you created your account on, because the other permalink button always references to the instance of your account.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Ohhh! So, if I’m understanding correctly, I can share that link to another… Instance? And it cuts me, the middleman, out of the link chain, kind of?

      • Jamie
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        11 year ago

        Also very useful for checking the sync on a post for people selfhosting. I made a thread about it earlier today because my instance is missing a number of comments, and it seems like it’s happening to quite a few of us. Ironically, my instance is missing 6 comments from my own post compared to the lemmy.world copy.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      Lemmy is divided in all connected servers or instances, where they host their own communities. The button brings you to the webpage where the post is being hosted on, if its different from the server you are connected to.

      • @candlebury
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        71 year ago

        At the start I thought it was the darkmode switch, weirdly prominent way to show that…

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      It links to the original server that the user posted on. It can be very useful for navigating around the fediverse. However I will say I don’t use it all that much.