One of the long-standing issues we have in/on the fediverse is that when I have a link in my post that goes to another post on my instance, people on other instances will click that link and be taken to MY instance, where they can’t comment, don’t have an account, aren’t logged in, etc and they will try to log in using their login credentials for their home instance then wonder why it doesn’t work.
When someone links to https://lemmy.world/post/39832275 and I’m on piefed.social I want to see https://piefed.social/c/news/p/1544770/national-parks-ordered-to-check-gift-shops-for-dei-type-items not the copy on lemmy.world!
As of PieFed v1.4, links like that will automatically be converted to link to the local copy of the post, where ‘local’ is whatever is local for the reader. See the linked video where I demonstrate this in action.
I can appreciate that! Keeping share to minimum actions needed is very appreciated!
This is how it looks like in Voyager settings (for the sake of discussion). What did you think of having a preference in the settings?
That could work! What should the default option be? I think it would either have to be “ask” or “chose one of these options which can be changed later from settings”
IMO the current behavior could be default – the blorp link.
I usually end up changimg it to the community.