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Open Lemmy links in current instance, not forced to switch instances (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/summit@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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