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I found this thread which says you can use the search bar to pull up a permalink in your local instance. Seems to work for me, though I'm with you that something more seamless would be nice.
Edit: this is only on the web UI. I haven't figured out how to do this in Jerboa.
Hi I'm the partner! That was fairy easy to do yeah, it's good enough for now ๐คทโโ๏ธ
There isn't a way to do exactly what you want.
Since you typically do this with your partner, the easiest solution would be for you both to be on the same instance. Then the gray chain link would work fine.
For other random people, use the colored federation star link. That goes to the home instance of the post.
Edit: as per mortonksalt
Another option is to paste the link to another instance into the search on yours. That should bring up the local instance version of the same post.
Hi, I'm the partner. Isn't it possible to create a converter that detects what instance you're logged in to and then redirect to the post? //noob frontend dev
Honestly, someone should just make a browser add-on for this, and that would solve the problem for a large chunk of people, since most users appear to be techies.
Mortonksalt linked to instructions.
They say you should be able to put the linked URI into your instance search and pull up the local version of the same post. That isn't super clean, but it should work.