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Apologies, I didn't realize someone had replied to my comment before I deleted it. I figured starting my own post was better than trying to hijack someone else's similar post. (Again, that link won't work for you - I've been told if you enter that URL into your instances search bar, it will translate it)
I agree with you though, this is the biggest problem I've seen that will lead to adoption issues. Not really a lemmy issue though, more of a Fediverse/ActivityPub issue.
Links to other instances always say I’m logged out (which, technically, I am) that makes the link useless. For example, I am logged in at my home instance of https://midwest.social [https://midwest.social] If I click a link to go to https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support [https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support] it takes me to that community, but I am not logged in (to lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]) so I am unable to meaningfully interact with it. I have to manually edit each lemmy URL that I go to in the URL bar in order for me to go to that community with my lemmy account. So I need to manually change https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support [https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support] into https://midwest.social/c/[email protected] [https://midwest.social/c/[email protected]] and I have to do this each time I click a link to another instance if I want to post there. I’ve been a system administrator for 20 years, and this took me a few minutes to figure out. “Casual” users are just going to be SOL since they aren’t going to be analyzing editing URLs to make them work. I feel like the only want to fix this is to have a browser addon intercept any lemmy URLs and modify them to work based on your home instance. Am I doing something wrong, or is this just how it is?
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