Might be a stupid question, but I’m ready to receive the fatal beating. Here goes:
If I find myself in a certain post on another instance (ex.: sh.itjust.works) and my user is here, on Lemmy.world, is there a way to directly open that post from Lemmy.world instance?
I tried copy-pasting the post ID, but I soon realized that the same post will have a different ID on another instance.
Am i blind or are those 2 buttons exactly what you want? The left is for your currenct instance and the right is the instance from where the comment / post came. The only benefit i can see is you see a post when you are searching through another instance but you want to see it in your “home” instance?
The first, link icon is just that, a link to the post/comment the way you currently see it on the site. It’s relative to the instance you have opened it on.
The second, fediverse icon is a little confusing to me, but it definitely isn’t doing what I need it to. In my experience, it shows the link to the post/comment on OP’s home instance if it’s not the same as the instance you’re browsing, even if they posted directly to this instance. My guess is that OP’s home instance must create the post first, to then send it to the foreign instance, so technically, posts exist on both instances.
Long story short, the fediverse icon is relative to the OP.
In conclusion, neither of those buttons will open the post relative to my home instance, with the exception of some coincidences.