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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[-] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 6 days ago

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 6 days ago

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 4 points 6 days ago

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

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