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.
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@grumpygamer Counterpoint: Gargron TRIED to "fix" this in Masto 4 and it's horrendous.
The fediverse is decentralized, gotta get used to it.
It's important to have the /actual canonical link/ to a post, which yeah, of course that's gonna be on a different server.
Trying to switcheroo links around and hide the existence of other servers just pushes your own server as the One True Server and it's not okay *waves paw at mastodon.social*.
Now, if you don't try to do those horrendous proxy links, and instead just have JS onclick fuckery to keep you in the client, that'd be alright. But if you're sharing a link offsite? Of COURSE it's the canonical link. That's how it should be.