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How to comment on other Lemmy instances
With mastodon I just log in with my mastodon account and enter my unique username to follow or comment on something, if it's on another instance.

But how does it work on Lemmy? If I am on another instance and I try to log in to comment, my account can not be found.

At the post above someone from lemmy.ml commented the post and I am just trying to figure out how this works?

What is the workflow if I find another interesting instance to comment or like, because it looks like leaving lemmy.ml isn't a good idea.

Hello. Also a question. - Beehaw

beehaw.org
in reply to maxmoon

sexy_peach
sexy_peach
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But how does it work on Lemmy? If I am on another instance and I try to log in to comment, my account can not be found.
You can copy the url of the post and paste it into the search field on your server. It will look the post up and then you can comment, being logged in on your home server 😀

If this doesn't work try copying and searching for the link that's behind the rainbow icon next to the favorite, crosspost, report etc buttons.
in reply to sexy_peach

Lenins2ndCat
Lenins2ndCat
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A "view this page from X instance" dropdown menu populated by a list of federated instances in the UI of every comments section would streamline this process massively. Right now it's a bit cumbersome.
in reply to sexy_peach

maxmoon 🌱
maxmoon 🌱
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Ok, I can see this post on Mastodon. But I can't see comments from @Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.ml and @Liwott on Mastodon, which I can see on Lemmy. Is it broken?
@Liwott
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Liwott
Liwott
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I think the point might be that your Mastodon instance does not federate (yet) with my Friendica instance. Don't know about @Awoo though as you seem to have already interacted with Lemmy
@Lenins2ndCat
in reply to maxmoon

Liwott
Liwott
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See this thread (from Lemmy, click the "recycle" kind of logo):

jonuno

2022-08-16 08:12:01


(solved)Why cant i comment in other instances?


I would like to comment this post
https://lemmy.eus/post/5671
but asks me to log in. I am logged in in my instance and although I see people from 'my' instance commenting there too, when I try to log it says it does not find my account. Do I have to create an account in this instance first? What am I doing wrong?
in reply to Liwott

maxmoon
maxmoon
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Sorry, I didn't understand how to create a custom search engine. Do I have to be the admin of an instance to do that?
in reply to maxmoon

Liwott
Liwott
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It is something one can do in their browser. For example in Firefox I use this extension. In Fennec F-droid I can directly do it from the "search" preferences.
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maxmoon 🌱
maxmoon 🌱
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So you are telling me those people who are replied to @sexy_peach are blocked on my Mastodon instance and it's not a technical problem to show them?
@sexy_peach
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maxmoon
maxmoon
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My original post is on lemmy.ml (https://lemmy.ml/post/439617) and not beehaw. I really don't understand how beehaw is involved in this. Is it only because I added the link to this post? But this link was meant to show an example and not to overtake the filters of the server.

I am confused...
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