There is a link icon and a colorful link icon. When I hover over them they give me two comment id’s the only thing i can think of is that one of the link icons is the parent comment and the other link id is something else i haven’t figured out.

Any ideas?

  • piratepost@poliverso.org
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    1 year ago

    @jcb2016 If the reply post or comment is from a user of your instance (lemmy.world) then you will only see the link with the chain symbol.
    If, on the other hand, the post or reply comment comes from a user of another Lemmy instance, or from a user of the Fediverse (Mastodon, Friendica, or other software that you may not know, you will see both the gray link (which will directs to your instance’s cache) and the colored link (which directs you to the UNIQUE address of that message, valid for the entire Fediverse).
    In my case, for example, if you click on the colored icon, you will end up in my Friendica instance (a federated alternative to Facebook)

    • Joe B@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the info. Where did you find this information is there a document so i can read up so i don’t have to ask questions like this again?

        • Joe B@lemmy.worldOP
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          1 year ago

          Do you even use Reddit anymore since you found lemmy/feddit ? I’m probably saying it wrong but you get what i mean :P

          • piratepost@poliverso.org
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            1 year ago

            @jcb2016 No, I used Reddit very little, also because the Italian moderators are pretty bad… 😀 I’m a Mastodon user and a Friendica administrator but last year I opened a Lemmy instance because it’s one of the easiest and freshest software in the world Fedeverse

            • Joe B@lemmy.worldOP
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              1 year ago

              I have a mastodon account also but didn’t know how to use it. its just sitting there unused lol. Now i know about the fedeverse and might use it. but i have a good fit with this username on this instance that i might just keep it. I really like lemmy its a new toy. i like new things. I think thats the techy in me

      • piratepost@poliverso.org
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        1 year ago

        @jcb2016 In my instance we have prepared a small guide in Italian and you should be able to understand it with machine translation systems.
        You can copy this link feddit.it/post/285572 into the search box to view it inside your lemmy.world instance but if you want translation support you should open it in your browser.

        Otherwise you can look here lemmy.click/post/17080

        • Joe B@lemmy.worldOP
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          1 year ago

          Wow thanks. I have to go clean up the house lol but I read a little before I got and man. This is really the alternative to reddit. my sub is opening up tomorrow it has 75k with about 2 post a day. i have a mod that has setup automation and basically the sub is running itself. from what i read It makes my transistion over to lemmy way better and the whole ideolgy behind it.

          Thanks.

          e: Just saw your other inbox message and will read.