For example, this comment links to another community on another instance, but when clicked on, you’re not actually able to interact with anything on that community, because you’re suddenly not logged in.

It’s doesn’t function like linking to a subreddit, and I understand that that’s because of federation, but is there a better way of doing this? It seems… very stupid that linking to a page would suddenly “log you out” for all intents and purposes, while searching that same community wouldn’t.

Does this make sense?

    • Tarte
      1•2 years ago

      The feature exists in the fediverse, but I don’t know if or how it’s implemented in Lemmy. I’m using Kbin and there is a button called “copy url to fediverse” (for comments and posts/threads):

      Your comment: https://feddit.de/comment/508518

      This post/thread: https://lemm.ee/post/288327

      So basically, each entry has a unique ID that you can use to build a link.

      • @[email protected]
        3•2 years ago

        Well yes but that second link takes me out of my instance and I can’t interact. That’s the point of the question: can I link to an individual submission on another instance without leaving my own instance so that I can interact?

          • @[email protected]
            1•2 years ago

            More likely I’m not being clear enough. These links all have an instance hard coded into them so I can’t easily share them with people outside that instance. Right? Or am I not seeing something? What OP and I are looking for is a way to post a link to an individual submission on any instance that anyone can click on, regardless of their home instance, and be able to interact (this presumes their home instance and the target instance are federated, obviously).

            • Tarte
              1•2 years ago

              Oh, now I get it! Thanks for staying with me and explaining.

              That would be a nice feature indeed.