The point is that it redirects you to the post on your personal interest.
You can also paste that into the search of any lemmy instance to find it, if they mirrored it
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It’s just a convenience service. Your original url is right there in the path if it were to go down, and it’s open source if you want to run your own.
There’s no other way currently to do it
Once a user on the remote instance subscribes, all posts are replicated over as they’re made. Not at the the time of request.