Not sure how complex this might be to implement, but it might be good to look into fixing the issue of:

If I’m logged into say piefed.social and I see a link on another forum to a post on piefed.ca, when I click on it I’m not logged in, and then I can’t upvote or comment.

Meaning I need to go to piefed.social and search for that post if I want to interact with it, which is a lot of friction.

Perhaps if you go to a piefed.ca post it can look at your cookies to check if you’re already logged into another piefed instance, and then redirect & open the post through the instance you’re logged into.

Or have a big redirect button that offers to redirect you to the post you’re looking at but in the instance you’re logged into.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Mastodon solves this by offering to redirect you to the active post on another instance. I guess a similar solution would apply here, though I have no idea how technically challenging it would be to implement or if it’s really necessary here. I very rarely if ever find myself in the “wrong” instance.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialMEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If your instance already has the post being linked to, the link gets rewritten to point to it instead.

    This doesn’t work very well on brand new instances like yours which have few users as you’re not getting everything all the time.

  • Blaze@piefed.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    IIRC it works already. I was surprised the other day to click on a Lemmy link and be directed to the thread but on my local instance

    • wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyzEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I think that is a separate use case. This request is if you are actively browsing an instance you don’t have an account in, but want to join a community, to have it redirect back to an instance you do have an account on.

      Edit: I guess it is kind of both issues.

      • Blaze@piefed.zipEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Ah, the way the “follow on my instance” works on Lemmy, I see.

        I always thought it was a niche use case, like usually I browse the Boardnet from an instance I’m logged in, you don’t really see a lot of Piefed or Lemmy accounts in the wild