Are they both links?

  • Steve@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The grey chain icon, goes to the post or comment address on your instance.

    The colored federation icon, goes to the home instance address of the community the post or comment is part of.

    • Dulce Maria@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      I have no idea what you just said and suspect it will make sense to more I use Lemmy. Appreciate the explanation.

      • Steve@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Let me put it another way.

        When you want to bookmark the link, or open annother tab to view the thread yourself, you want use the grey chain link.

        When you want to share a link publicly, or give it to some random you don’t know, the colored network link is probably more appropriate.

  • OrangeSlice
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    1 year ago

    These are from the inbox view, right? Let me know if you see them next to each other elsewhere.

    The paperclip will take you to a “context view” of the reply. The fediverse icon takes you to the content on its native instance (which may or may not be your own).

      • OrangeSlice
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        1 year ago

        Oh, duh. It’s similar though:

        The link is a “permalink” to the comment on my instance (as I see it).

        The fediverse icon is a permalink to the comment on the commenter’s instance (which in this case would be yours at latte.isnot.coffee. You can see this if you hover over each one, or right click and select “copy link” and paste it somewhere.