• AwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    You’re missing the point. You should never leave your home instance. Lemmy could automatically remap links to whatever your home instance is before you ever click on them.

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      5 months ago

      Some UIs do, I have Tesseract on mine and it rewrites the links for me.

      That doesn’t solve sharing a link on Matrix/Discord/Google or wherever. I rarely have this issue on Lemmy itself, but whenever I get a link from elsewhere, that’s when I need to be able to open it on my home instance so I can interact with it.

      Same deal with Mastodon. You’re reading some news, it links so the dev’s Mastodon, you need a way to open it in your home instance.

      There’s no fixing that.

      EDIT: test self link to this comment https://lemmy.world/comment/10561034

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        5 months ago

        This is what that looks like on a good Lemmy frontend:

        I forgot the default UI didn’t do that. Both Tesseract and Boost handle those mostly just fine.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, 3rd party links are a tougher nut to crack. You’d think they could at least fix the local links, though.

        I can think of a few potential solutions, but they’d all require a lot of user opt in and centralisation, which makes it unlikely to ever happen.

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      5 months ago

      I generally agree with you.

      However, I want to encourge you to consider softening up your replies to people who you don’t have a strong prior social connection with. I’ve started making an effort to do that and I’ve found that I’m having more rewarding conversations now.