Seconded, it also happens there is a link to an external community or instance and opening them to wefwef would be time saver.

This could be the deal breaker with an app having control its own redirection. It’s very much a pain but I don’t know what could be done. ios seems to think anything with an @ sign needs an email.

This should be doable with a separate app like Hyperweb which can change safari url handling.

One issue I see is it’s easy to always redirect Reddit.com links to narwhal but Lemmy instances all have separate urls so it would have to update them or let you update them.