I’m on kbin.cafe. Let’s use the top post of kbinMeta as an example.

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/86614

When I access this same post from kbin.cafe, the link is instead

https://www.kbin.cafe/m/[email protected]/t/2219/PSA-Upvote-is-not-an-upvote-like-you-are-used

So I can’t just change the kbin.social link to kbin.cafe and append an @kbin.social to the magazine name. I have to search for the post on kbin.cafe, which often won’t succeed if the magazine the post is on didn’t start federating over until after the post was made. I care about this because I would like to be able to interact with posts with my current account.

I can always just have a sock puppet account on kbin.social that I follow with my kbin.cafe account, and use the sock puppet to boost the post so I can access it on kbin.cafe. For me this is actually realistic option given that I made a kbin.social before I found out about kbin.cafe. But it feels dirty, and I would like to not have to constantly switch accounts to access one post or interact with it.

  • cjerrington@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    You are viewing a post that is originating on kbin social. It is then federating to your instance in kbin.cafe. So your instance is receiving a copy in a way to view and interact with the post. Your instance then can send a copy of the replies and comments to the originating instance so they can all work together.

    • Emotional_Series7814@kbin.cafeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s not my question, I understand how federation works. I want to know how to find a post on kbin.social and change the link so I can open it on kbin.cafe and interact with it on my kbin.cafe account. This often happens if I see an interesting post on a magazine that nobody on my instance is subscribed to yet.

      • cjerrington@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        You and others on kbin.cafe will have to subscribe to the same magazine on other instances. You would interact with it just like you are now with this post on kbin.social. There is a possibility the same post could appear in the general / all feed of federated posts too.

        • Emotional_Series7814@kbin.cafeOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m really sorry but I feel like you’re answering a question I don’t have, and explaining things I already know.

          When I made this post, I already understood that

          1. people on kbin.cafe need to subscribe to a magazine on kbin.social to make any posts from it show up on kbin.cafe. The only posts that will show are ones made after a kbin.cafe user subscribed there.
          2. these posts have the potential to show up on general/all, and when I search for them.
          3. I can interact with these posts on my kbin.cafe account.

          What I am asking is how I can access a specific kbin.social post that I first find on the kbin.social site, through kbin.cafe in such a way that I am able to interact with it. I am already aware of these methods:

          1. have a kbin.social account. Follow it with your kbin.cafe account. Use the kbin.social account to boost the post. It will show up for all your followers—which means you on your kbin.cafe account. Now you can interact. I am looking for a method other than this, because it feels dirty and why bother with this boosting process if I can already interact with my existing kbin.social account? If the point is just to use an alternate account to obfuscate my identity, I can do the same thing using an alternate account on kbin.social instead of kbin.cafe.
          2. use the search on kbin.cafe to look for the post. I am looking for a method other than this because if the post did not federate over, this fails—but I won’t know if I failed to find the post because I searched the wrong terms and just need to keep trying, or if I failed and should give up because the post failed to federate over. Also, if many posts match the keywords, it becomes tedious to search through all the results.

          I want to know if there is any faster way to do this, or if I’m stuck with these hacky-feeling workarounds.

          • cjerrington@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            You can try the “more > copy link to fediverse”

            But you shouldnt have to browse kbin.social then copy that link to a url formatted for you instance.

            On your kbin.cafe you could try /d/kbin.social to try and do a link too. Might just need to follow the /m/ on other instances to see the posts from other kbin and lemmy instances.

  • distantorigin@kbin.cafe
    1·
    1 year ago

    It would be lovely if posts had a unique ID (UUID of some sort) that was shared between instances. That way, rather than using the thread ID, a unique ID is used that points at that particular thread, comment, or microblog. But alas, this doesn’t exist, and we’re here.