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

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 7 points 6 days ago

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 6 days 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[-] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 6 days 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.

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