Any user, no matter where, will get hyperlinked to a "local" view of that community via their own instance.
But there's no analogous syntax to create compatible links for posts. If you just slap an URL in, it links directly to the view of the post on the instance that was linked to.
I know that it's possible to do this mechanically, because the Firefox "Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin" addon adds a button in the sidebar of posts on remote instances to "view this post on your home instance", and it works. But there's no native syntax in lemmy or kbin to generate a link for someone else's client to do that.
But there's no analogous syntax to create compatible links for posts. If you just slap an URL in, it links directly to the view of the post on the instance that was linked to.
Yeah that's my problem. Compounded with the fact that the instance will try to load its own version of the link which may end up somewhere completely different. There's a decent chance it's an issue with Jerboa as well on my end. I think the only reason it actually worked here was because the weirdo I was responding to is on the same instance as me.
Compounded with the fact that the instance will try to load its own version of the link which may end up somewhere completely different.
...I don't see how.
If someone links to a post on a remote instance, your home instance won't rewrite the URL to point at a local view of the post. It'll just have a link to that remote instance.
Like, the problem that should come up isn't that you see something random, but rather that you're not on your home instance, which is obnoxious.
If you're manually copying post IDs and changing the instance name, yeah, that won't work.
There’s a decent chance it’s an issue with Jerboa as well on my end.
I mean, maybe Jerboa tries rewriting URLs itself and there's some kind of bug, I guess. I could be wrong, but the last time I was using Jerboa, which was some time back, I think that it might have opened them in my web browser instead of the client.
checks to see what Eternity does
It looks like Eternity goes to the remote instance, but does so in Eternity.
The Firefox addon does it flawlessly, in my experience, so I can't imagine that there's any kind of great complexity in the mapping.
I don't know if there's a way to link, in a universal way, to your home instance's view of a comment, though. Just a post. The Firefox addon can't do that.