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?

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[–] llama@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully there can be a URL rewrite feature in future Lemmy updates

[–] Sharp312@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] llama@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

To your point about the logout issue, it would be nice if identities could be federated between instances so a login on one would work like SSO for any Lemmy instance. Just now I clicked on your comment to reply and was confused why I couldn't, because I was viewing it on the original instance and not through my own.

[–] ZeroDrek@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] ifrit@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One year ago Mastodon had similar problems, but now it improve a lot and also has great apps and clients. The Fediverse is growing and improving step by step without much money and ruled by communities.

Use Lemmy and Kbin, contribute reporting issues, writing code, supporting admins and projects, spreading the word...

Did you know that now Pixelfed allow to import your Instagram account?

[–] necrxfagivs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I thought about signing up for Kbin as well, but I prefer to just have one account and use it across the fediverse. As far as I understand, Kbin and Lemmy are really similar, being microblogging the main difference, besides Kbin not being federated yet.

[–] overby@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] branmuf@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it would work the same way with Kbin, just using /m/ instead of /c/?

[–] overby@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The only link I have to a community on kbin is pointing to a /c - mechanicalkeyboards. But I'm not sure the content of the two are the same (https://kbin.social/m/mechanicalkeyboards)

[–] ayyndrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this work for specific posts or just communities?

[–] overby@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure it works for posts - they have the format: servername/post/id. I'll see if I can find a way

[–] ifrit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Here https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/76342 ;)

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