Whether you are a Reddit refugee (I am one) or just randomly stumbled upon Lemmy and decided to join lemmy.world, welcome to the Fediverse.

If you have been here for long enough and settled in and now finally feel comfortable with Lemmy, I highly advice you to move to smaller instances. I just newly left Lemmy.world to join Lemm.ee.

We need to capitalize on the decentralized nature of the Fediverse and Lemmy instead of having everyone joining one instance. This will benefit the admins of Lemmy.world a lot as they would not have to deal with such a high amount of users. It also leaves room for new users to join and have a good experience rather than an experience filled with server outages where they will give up on Lemmy.

  • Poplar?English
    6•10 months ago

    Im new, what do you mean by message being on another server? Do you mean a post?

    • @[email protected]English
      4•10 months ago

      Suppose someone sent you a lemmy link like this: lemmy.example.com/post/12345.

      Now, you have an account on another instance called lemmy.test, also logged in and want to comment. But opening the original link lemmy.example.com/post/12345 still treats you as being unlogged, because it looks logins from lemmy.example.com, not lemmy.test or any other federated instances.

      The solution, for now, is to use the search* function from your instance (lemmy.test) by pasting the original link (lemmy.example.com/post/12345). That gives you a URL that’s compatible with your login inside your own instance: lemmy.test/post/98765.

      You can do this (or rather, have to do this) with communities or user links too.

      I heard there are browser extensions doing this automatically, but haven’t tried. Mobile apps should have better support.

      * Edit: I remember being able to do this but now its not working. Perhaps something changed? I recommend using browser extensions or mobile apps that should take care of this automatically.

      Edit 2: I realized how to obtain the actual working link.

      • Poplar?English
        3•10 months ago

        Thanks for the detailed reply :)

      • SpziEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        there are browser extensions doing this automatically

        I don’t think that’s technically possible, or it would require a substantial effort. Comments and posts are stored with an instance-specific ID. There is no nice way to determine if this ID matches an ID on another instance.

        I would be very happy to learn I’m wrong on this one. So if anyone knows a solution, please let me know.