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At least on Lemmy, every post and comment has a colorful button that serves as a link to the original post (i.e. on the poster's home instance). I just used that button to see this post on your home instance and it seems that there, it is hidden behind the "More" menu and called "Open original URL".
So that gives you links to the post on all home instances of the users who have already commented in the thread.
a colorful button
it's the logo of Fediverse
I know that; people who are reading this might not, so I described it in a way everyone could understand.
Since you're on fedia.io, which runs mbin, I can answer some of that for you.
Under a post (or a comment for that matter) there is a "More" link. "Open original URL" will open a new tab of that post or comment at the instance the user the post or comment was from.
So if I Open original URL on this post, it will open a new tab at fedia.io for this post - because you posted it, and you posted it from your fedia.io account, at that instance.
However, if I Open original URL for the comment by @meldrik@lemmy.wtf a new tab will open of that comment in this post at lemmy.wtf.
That's how that function works, but the reasons you'd actually want to do it are limited. Perhaps the instance you're viewing the post through is defederated from some other instance, and so you wouldn't see comments from users at that instance. Opening the post "somewhere else" that wasn't defederated from the instance you wanted to see comments from would then let you see them - but not interact there, unless you also had an account at that instance.
So far as I know, fedia.io is only defederated from a very small number of tankie-heavy instances (lemmy.ml and hexbear/chapo.chat are the ones that come to mind). I don't think the thing you are asking about doing really has a use case.
Thanks for shedding light on that feature on fedia. Yeah, I kind of did not find a need to do this. The question just crossed my mind yesterday and somehow I thought I need to know.
In the official Lemmy UI, there’s a “Fediverse logo” that you can click and it will take you to the posters instance.
The mbin equivalent (which is relevant to the OP) is More -> Open original URL or Copy original URL
I appreciate knowing both. I have a Lemmy instance account too.
@meldrik@lemmy.wtf thank you for your answer.
if you paste the link into another instance search bar i think lemmy can find it that way too
Unfortunately seems to not work for mbin (which fedia.io runs)
I thought you could put the full URL and find it that way as well, but if you mean you want to find it by title, that should work normally, unless i misunderstood