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Feature Idea: Redirect to a instance you're already logged into. (piefed.co.za)

submitted 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by biltong@piefed.co.za to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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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.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago

Would it be possible to have a button for logged out users, where you can type in your home instance and it will try redirecting you accordingly? For the case where someone finds a link on another site.

Mastodon does something similar, and Pixelfed is working on it with this FEP

https://codeberg.org/benpate/fep/src/branch/fep-3b86/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

You could maybe try to scan the hostname of the link against the list of known instances

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 12 hours ago

Yes, it does that first and then looks for posts / comments that match. I considered making it retrieve the post if it doesn't have it already but decided against it for performance reasons.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

It is yet another fantastic feature that we've been waiting for several years for on Lemmy, but PieFed got to it first (no surprises there). :-)

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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.zip 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] biltong@piefed.co.za 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Not yet, but I've been seeing them more and more on reddit, and then I land on a instance I'm not logged into, and then it's a pain in the A$$ to interact with the post.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

https://threadiverse.link/ is supposed to help with that, but not sure how much it supports Piefed