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Open Lemmy links in current instance, not forced to switch instances
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I love the app so far but I am having trouble with opening Lemmy links from other instances. When someone links to say a Lemmy.world post, I am hit with a window saying I have to have a Lemmy.world account in order to vote and such. This is incredibly inconvenient, I don't know how voyager does it but voyager just lets me view the post and vote/etc. in my instance without forcing me to change accounts. Anyway to get rid of this behavior so it is more like voyager? I want other Lemmy links to be opened in my instance so I can vote and such.
Also unrelated but just now I was unable to upload a picture from summit and had to switch apps to upload the photo.
Sorry for the long wait for my response, I was preoccupied at the time.
I tried tapping on change instance but it seemed to not work immediately, I had to tap on it a few times while trying to vote which is why I initially thought I needed to change accounts and there was some sort of error since the dialog kept reappearing. I did get a vote in after tapping on change instance a few times but it didn't show I upvoted (it did not make the upvoted button orange, it left it the same color as if I hadn't interacted with it), just showed the vote count change.
I think a good compromise is your suggestion to have a toggle for auto-open link set to off by default so I can have it on and replicate what I saw voyager doing.
I think the buttons could also say something like "view in my instance" (Lemmy.dbzer0) and "view in original instance" (Lemmy.world). That might make it clearer to someone like me.
Thank you for letting me know about the issues you've encountered. I'll try to include these fixes in the next update.