I have also been wondering if there is a way to do this. If not, we should prioritize figuring it out because it's a crucial function to be able to easily link between instances so that people can interact with the content.
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This method here will work.
- On this post, do you see the little rainbow Fediverse icon? Click on that. You're now looking at the original post on the server from which it originated. The post on lemmy.pethchat.org was federated to that server from lemmy.world where the post originated.
- Go to the search tool on your Lemmy server, and put that lemmy.world URL in there.
- The post will show up, and you can interact with it as it appears on your Lemmy instance.
Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions.
A link like [this](/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml) will work for website users on instances with at least one person subscribed to that community. There is an open issues to generalize this so that clicking the link doesn't crash Jerboa, and another one to load data from the remote instance instead of just 404ing. I know that's not amazing news, but this is an open source project under active development.
Posts cannot be universally linked across instances as each instance has a different id, correct. I'm not sure anybody's thought of a way around that, even before considering dev time. Definitely a longer-term issue to tackle.