One of the long-standing issues we have in/on the fediverse is that when I have a link in my post that goes to another post on my instance, people on other instances will click that link and be taken to MY instance, where they can’t comment, don’t have an account, aren’t logged in, etc and they will try to log in using their login credentials for their home instance then wonder why it doesn’t work.
When someone links to https://lemmy.world/post/39832275 and I’m on piefed.social I want to see https://piefed.social/c/news/p/1544770/national-parks-ordered-to-check-gift-shops-for-dei-type-items not the copy on lemmy.world!
As of PieFed v1.4, links like that will automatically be converted to link to the local copy of the post, where ‘local’ is whatever is local for the reader. See the linked video where I demonstrate this in action.
A very helpful feature! Looking forward for PW to upgrade to 1.4 (I was wondering why the LW link in the post body didn’t automatically switch to PW instance/client).
1.4 isn’t released yet :)
Maybe another week or two until it’s out.
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I also wish the Lemmy WebUI would adopt this model, it would make sidebar links so much cleaner and easier to use for new and casual users.