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I can't find any specific Yes / No via search and my understanding is that's not really possible due to how federated websites work, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can give me a straight answer.

I had something I wanted to post that wasn't very relevant to any particular community, but more specific to me, kinda like a blog post.

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[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unrelated but is there a way to convert someone else's instance+community link to your own?

Obviously not faulting you for this, but when I click on your link I get taken to lemmy.zip, where I do not have an account so I cannot participate. I spent some time manually searching for that community on my own instance, which of course is a bit annoying for newbies and I would think there is a way around that I haven't found yet.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you.

In their defense, a feature that's not known by everyone isn't really the fault of the people who don't know about it.

Thanks to you, now they and I know about it.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Beauty of the fedi, you can post from one instance to another without needing a separate account. For example mine is a single person instance with no local comms, yet here I am.

Edit: I think I missed the intent of the question. What you would look for is just the same of the comm@instance.tld on your own local base and assuming that federation functional between the instances it'll show up to subscribe to. There's no translation needed, but if you're the first to subscribe from your home instance it might not show up right away.