Hey every lemmy. This post on world, https://lemmy.world/post/2561210, maps to this post on my instance: https://boulder.ly/post/59184. When I click the links on world I get through to the linked posts. But when I click them on my site, I get this error.

This seems to be due to the original poster having used relative links which will only work on the instance they were posted. They could have posted fixed links which would have brought me to the content but pulled me out of my instance and asked me to log into another to participate in the conversation.

Both options seem to break the spirit of federation. Why weren't some kind of unique IDs common to all instances used so that relative links would work across all instances? Can we correct this going forward? Similarly, can we perform URL rewrites for fixed links on other instances? Thanks!