• Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    Some UIs do, I have Tesseract on mine and it rewrites the links for me.

    That doesn’t solve sharing a link on Matrix/Discord/Google or wherever. I rarely have this issue on Lemmy itself, but whenever I get a link from elsewhere, that’s when I need to be able to open it on my home instance so I can interact with it.

    Same deal with Mastodon. You’re reading some news, it links so the dev’s Mastodon, you need a way to open it in your home instance.

    There’s no fixing that.

    EDIT: test self link to this comment https://lemmy.world/comment/10561034

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      This is what that looks like on a good Lemmy frontend:

      I forgot the default UI didn’t do that. Both Tesseract and Boost handle those mostly just fine.

    • AwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, 3rd party links are a tougher nut to crack. You’d think they could at least fix the local links, though.

      I can think of a few potential solutions, but they’d all require a lot of user opt in and centralisation, which makes it unlikely to ever happen.