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Amazing. One feature that is desperately needed on Lemmy is to open a post in another instance, not just a community or a user.
If you can elaborate on that, I can probably add that as a feature. It already has that capability, but it's not exposed as a "view post on X instance" in any menus.
Edit: Added buttons in the post and comment action menus to "View [Post | Comment] on Home Instance". Thanks for the feature idea.
Instance agnostic post and comment links need to be implemented as well, and would address the underlying challenge in "opening a post in another instance".
Edit: For now, Lemmy Universal Link Switcher is a great browser script which mostly simulates the functionality of instance agnostic post and comment links. It would be great if the equivalent functionality could be integrated natively into Lemmy though.
Without content addressing that's almost impossible
You can't have content addressing because it's mutable. On the other hand, UUIDs are made for that. There's even multiple types of UUIDs made for distributed computing with namespaces and such.
Bluesky does strict content addressing with hashes plus post ID (unique per repository, this allows edits). So you can choose which version to refer to. If you need to archive or mirror stuff you can use the hash, and threads can have both methods so you can see which version of a comment somebody replied to, etc.
Clients can work around it by making a search on the home instance that filters by community id and submitter id. Something like this.
Lemmy Universal Link Switcher also pretty good. It would be great if such functionality could be integrated natively into Lemmy though.