14

Okay this feels like such a basic and dumb question but I cannot figure it out. I followed a link to a Mastodon post and saw a reply I wanted to make my own reply to. No problem, I figured I have a CherryPick account which federates with Mastodon so this should be a breeze. The problem is that post IDs are obviously different across instances so I can't simply modify the URL to find the post and it hasn't synced with my instance so I can't use search to find it either. Obviously I can't login to the Mastodon instance with my account either, sadly, as much as I would love that. So I manually looked up the user and found them on my instance, but despite showing more recent posts I can't find the one I want to reply to! The post they replied to is available on my instance, their account is available, why the heck is this one reply just not available! What do I do here, just give up?

top 4 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago
  1. Copy/paste the full URL of the post you want to reply to into your server's Search box. This will cause the post to be loaded by your server, where you can reply to it

  2. Use a browser extension like Graze to automatically redirect buttons on remote instances to your home instance

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

It worked! Thanks for the help.

[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

My pleasure!

I run a server (urusai.social) so feel free to ask me other questions if you have any :)

[-] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

You might try copy and pasting the link into your instance's search bar to try to get it to fetch/sync the post so that you may reply to it. That's how it generally works in my experience when running into your situation, supposing your instance isn't defederated from the other person's.

this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
14 points (100.0% liked)

No Stupid Questions

2174 readers
9 users here now

There is no such thing as a Stupid Question!

Don't be embarrassed of your curiosity; everyone has questions that they may feel uncomfortable asking certain people, so this place gives you a nice area not to be judged about asking it. Everyone here is willing to help.


Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca still apply!


Thanks for reading all of this, even if you didn't read all of this, and your eye started somewhere else, have a watermelon slice ๐Ÿ‰.


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS