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Feature Idea: Redirect to a instance you're already logged into. (piefed.co.za)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by biltong@piefed.co.za to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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Not sure how complex this might be to implement, but it might be good to look into fixing the issue of:

If I'm logged into say piefed.social and I see a link on another forum to a post on piefed.ca, when I click on it I'm not logged in, and then I can't upvote or comment.

Meaning I need to go to piefed.social and search for that post if I want to interact with it, which is a lot of friction.

Perhaps if you go to a piefed.ca post it can look at your cookies to check if you're already logged into another piefed instance, and then redirect & open the post through the instance you're logged into.

Or have a big redirect button that offers to redirect you to the post you're looking at but in the instance you're logged into.

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[-] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Mastodon solves this by offering to redirect you to the active post on another instance. I guess a similar solution would apply here, though I have no idea how technically challenging it would be to implement or if it's really necessary here. I very rarely if ever find myself in the "wrong" instance.

this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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