Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)I hate that you can't link to a Mastodon post without it taking you a different server. It's nuts that those links aren't swizzed on the sever. Always taking me to a different server that I'm not logged into is the Achilles heal of Mastodon. Non-tech users are completely confused by this. It's not their fault, it's Mastodon's fault. I know it's not easy to fix, but if Mastodon wanted to fix one thing keep new users, this is it.
Tom Casavant@grumpygamer they're in the process of fixing this! There's an effort from the mastodon team to fix it as well as ActivityPub devs on other software, hopefully that means it'll be fixed soon
@grumpygamer here's the relevant discussion for reference https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-html-discovery/issues/20
And a mastodon dev's comment on it: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-html-discovery/issues/20#issuecomment-2358581146
Follow a link without leaving my ActivityPub API client · Issue #20 · swicg/activitypub-html-discovery
"As an ActivityPub API client user, when I'm reading some HTML content of an ActivityPub object and I click a link, I want to pull the linked ActivityPub object directly into my client, so I don't ...