I’m often seeing links to posts on Mastodon and, when I click on them, they open in a Mastodon instance different from mine (I mean from the one where I have my account). This means that I cannot reply, boost, etc, that post.

The very roundaboundaboundabout way to solve this is to go to your instance and search/“explore” for that post.

Is there a smoother way to address this problem?

I found 1001 “beginner’s guides for Mastodon” online and after reading 3 without finding any solution, I decided to ask here.

A similar problem existed with communities (and still exists with posts) in different Lemmy instances, but luckily tools like the Lemmy Instance Assistant solve this rather smoothly with a click.

PS: sorry if this sounds like a rant – it isn’t. Just asking for info. I’m sure problems like this will eventually be solved in the Fediverse :)

    • stravanasu@lemmy.caOP
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      1 year ago

      Had never heard about it, cheers!

      Edit: unfortunately it looks like it’s not open-source. I have some trust issues with close-source projects that handle my browsing.

      • andypiper@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        understandable! No problem, just thought it could be useful, but realise you should make those choices carefully.