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What non-technical criticisms do you have of the Lemmy/kbin/link aggregator fediverse experience? (septic.win)

submitted 1 year ago by LimitedDuck@septic.win to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mplewis@lemmy.globe.pub 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Links between instances often don't work as intended, and there's no good way to redirect me from some-other-instance.pub/c/cool-community to my-instance.pub/c/cool-community@some-other-instance.pub automatically.

[–] cynber@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is something we have a workaround on an extension I'm working on. You can right-click on a link and have it open in your home instance

https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant

[–] mplewis@lemmy.globe.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, this is lovely!