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.
Woefdram@grumpygamer Not sure why that would be an Achilles heel...
Linking to other places is the foundation of the Web, it's what started (almost) all of it.
It's the fact that people nowadays are used to referring to whatever is on the server they know that may be such a heel: people tend to see their small environment as "the world".
The "fix" you suggest would mean admins would need *huge* amounts of disk space to store incredible quantities of data that's already available elsewhere.
What's the problem with linking to another server?
David JONES