I often need to link to another post, often my own. Naturally I find the cached version of the post on the host I am logged into. But that link is not sensible for sharing. The corresponding URL on the host of the community is universally reachable by all federated participants.

So how do I get that link? It should be the fedi icon.. but no, that’s shit. I have to navigate to the original host, find the community, then browse or search for the post there. It’s such a shitty design.

I'm also not sure how to properly link to posts on Lemmy.....

The fedi icon links to the host that generated the link, so for any post you make it will be slrpnk.net

I realise that doesn't help.