There is some friction of finding posts from federated content on your own instance, but you will note that I am posting from (and see this on) programming.dev rather than lemmy.world (where this community is hosted).
You need to be logged into your instance, search for the post on your instance, browse it via search, and then you can interact with it there. You don’t need to create an account on the other instance to interact with it.
And yes, that list of steps mentioned above is a lot of friction.
Links are also slightly awkward needing the full path in order to navigate to it on the instance you are signed into… and the editor appears to do it wrong when you let it. The link [email protected] should let you navigate there, join, comment and vote on a community hosted on another instance.
I saw this post on another instance and tried to reply this exact message but got an error saying I couldn’t.
And suspect they were doing something like browsing Lemmy.ml / all while not logged in and saw it but couldn’t interact with it until they came back to lemmy.world where it was easy to find and interact with.
Hello! Dev of Summit for Lemmy here. Summit actually supports switching accounts while keeping the same post open. Of course due to defederation it is not always possible to open a post on another account but it tries it’s best.
There is some friction of finding posts from federated content on your own instance, but you will note that I am posting from (and see this on) programming.dev rather than lemmy.world (where this community is hosted).
You need to be logged into your instance, search for the post on your instance, browse it via search, and then you can interact with it there. You don’t need to create an account on the other instance to interact with it.
And yes, that list of steps mentioned above is a lot of friction.
Links are also slightly awkward needing the full path in order to navigate to it on the instance you are signed into… and the editor appears to do it wrong when you let it. The link [email protected] should let you navigate there, join, comment and vote on a community hosted on another instance.
They might be talking about instances that have been defederated from each other?
I’m going from:
And suspect they were doing something like browsing Lemmy.ml / all while not logged in and saw it but couldn’t interact with it until they came back to lemmy.world where it was easy to find and interact with.
Hello! Dev of Summit for Lemmy here. Summit actually supports switching accounts while keeping the same post open. Of course due to defederation it is not always possible to open a post on another account but it tries it’s best.