Is there a solution to links from different instances?
This is a more general federated social media question, but posts often have links to content on instances other than the one I have an account with. For example, this post has links to beehaw.org posts. When I click on them, I am unable to vote on or comment on anything, because I don't have an account on beehaw.org.
Is there a Chrome extension or some other solution that would redirect these posts to my preferred lemmy instance?
The only solution I know of at the moment is to join the other community from your instance’s community page. Then you should be able to visit it and upvote/comment.
Here https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/76342 ;)
Yeah that’s super inconvenient. More so as a new user. I ended up visiting that site, copying the name and searching it in my own instance. Would be nice if that could be fixed in some way.
Hopefully there can be a URL rewrite feature in future Lemmy updates
I knew about Lemmy before what happened with reddit, but didn't use it until then. So I know about the little quirks like that, but if people are gonna stay this really needs to be addressed. To the average user they don't understand why they've been logged out and just think Lemmy is buggy which is sad.
Links should be created as relative links with the host server at the end like:
[ErgoMechKeyboards](/c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world)This wil result in a link like this: ErgoMechKeyboards
The latest version of Jerboa crashes for me any time I tap such a link. Really frustrating.
Anyway, either the client or underlying framework really needs to rewrite URLs to be relative to the currently logged-in instance. This is a major issue.
I'm guessing it would work the same way with Kbin, just using /m/ instead of /c/?