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New: Automaticlly turn remote fediverse links into local links (peertube.wtf)
submitted 5 days ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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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.

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[โ€“] wjs018@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@moseschrute@lemmy.world FYI

Something about this feature @rimu@piefed.social is showing off is that it is only doing the link substitution in the web frontend. Any links in posts/comments will remain unchanged in the API that clients like blorp and voyager. This lets the different clients deal with this as they would like.

It might be possible to do this substitution on PieFed's side for API responses, but I think it should not be the default. We would need some way for an API client to indicate that this is what would be desired.

[โ€“] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the heads up!