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You just have to go to the instance and look at their "local."
e.g. https://lemmy.ml/
That can be really awkward! So if I wanted to comment, I'd need to head back to my home instance and just to search for the thread I was looking at earlier. I know it's not the main usage model, but small things like this generate friction that make or break social media.
Yep! You're right. It doesn't help that people get confused because they get linked to a community on a different instance that references the instance domain (so it takes you to that server, where you are NOT a local user). I think community linking and link handling and also having a way to gently nudge users back onto their home instance while viewing content would be fantastic.
I was thinking this could be done with a "official" lemmy extension for Chrome/Firefox, where you can save your instance host and have it look for links that follow this format.
It would auto-change links from:
[https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy)To:
[https://{your host}/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml](https://{your host}/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)Looks like someone has already done this for firefox (as of yesterday)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-link-redundant
Which looks like a copy of the kbin version...
https://addons.mozilla.org/af/firefox/addon/kbin-link/
I just tested it and it works, but it's only looking for specific types of links (example the link at the top right of a community like
[!asklemmy@lemmy.ml](/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)NSFW communities are blocked from local when logged out, so viewing their local is incomplete.