Thanks for explaining that!

So the fedilink is the link to the original post on the original instance?

This was all genuinely very fascinating, but now I’m embarrassed because I don’t know what a fedilink is. xD

I mean, I expect kinks. That’s a natural part of the nature of what the fediverse is right now. I just think this is a pretty glaring gap; I hesitate to call it a “basic feature”, but I’d say it’s close… :/

I agree with @[email protected]; thank you for this. :)

I understand. I wasn’t sure if it was something that was already possible and I just didn’t get it (again, because I’m tired as balls), or if it was a problem with my instance, or hell even a limitation of the ActivityPub protocol itself. If I knew it was the instance, I would have posted for sure there instead. Although judging from others’ comments here, it seems the issue really is an ActivityPub limitation.

Instance Assistant

Nice! Installed!

Thanks. :) Kind of makes me think of a Reddit Enhancement Suite–type app but for ActivityPub. Haha.

Thanks for explaining all this. Sounds fascinating to me. I do appreciate you going out of your way to do that. :)

Wow. Seriously, that is a…pretty massive hole in feature-set for a link-sharing platform. And I say that lovingly toward Lemmy.

Clearly it has become sentient and is playing dumb to make us think it’s not a threat.

Not sure how exactly it is on desktop (probably not too different), but on your instance’s mobile site, there should be an option—probably in a hamburger menu or whatnot—labeled “Communities”. Select that and the next screen will have three options: " Subscribed", “Local”, and “All”.

“Subscribed” lists all communities you’re subscribed to (naturally), “Local” shows all the communities that is hosted on your instance, and “All” shows all communities regardless of instance provided they are federated.