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I imagine that creating a fork on your own instance, you just provide a url. UX-wise it isn’t as powerful as the one-click fork of a centralised platform, and I

by sshine 3y ago

I imagine that creating a fork on your own instance, you just provide a url. UX-wise it isn’t as powerful as the one-click fork of a centralised platform, and I think we’d need a browser plug-in because of the missing implicit assumption of where to fork it.

RheingoldRiver 3y ago
oh yeah which link to use has been a nightmare of a UX problem with kbin/lemmy. Like, if someone links you a Lemmy page but you want to see it on your kbin instance, you need a link here, "open in kbin.social (or whichever instance)." But same for every link on the page? I guess mastadon has better solutions for this, having existed much longer with federation, but it's definitely a downside. Maybe it's something that can be built into a browser in a more general way the way "email with" is for email links - a list of "these domains are actually federated" and "my options for opening them are" list, and you get links as needed, or popups. But there are additional issues when the post ids don't match on the different instances, so such a thing is not so simple as replacing the domain with %s in the right places.