How do i discover federated Lemmy posts (from a dead/offline instance) location/addresses? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by street689@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have many links from a permanently offline/down instance of Lemmy (closure announcement #1 , #2 ) like:

so how do i convert these links so it links to a federated (backup) content on other Lemmy instance/s?

Is my only chance to try https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://lemmings.world/post/10000001 to find out post content/name, so i can use search engine to search that post name if it indexes federated version of the original post?

If i know the post name, do i have better way to find the federated content address beside using internet search engine?

It seems like Lemmy sucks (still too centralized), possibly similarly to https://spasm.network/apps (i am yet to try its federated forums).

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[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Not that I've ever seen, that would kinda be a waste of resources of the lemmy servers.

Federation is only one "level". The origin sends it to all the other instances, they don't relay it along.

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