I’m often seeing links to posts on Mastodon and, when I click on them, they open in a Mastodon instance different from mine (I mean from the one where I have my account). This means that I cannot reply, boost, etc, that post.
The very roundaboundaboundabout way to solve this is to go to your instance and search/“explore” for that post.
Is there a smoother way to address this problem?
I found 1001 “beginner’s guides for Mastodon” online and after reading 3 without finding any solution, I decided to ask here.
A similar problem existed with communities (and still exists with posts) in different Lemmy instances, but luckily tools like the Lemmy Instance Assistant solve this rather smoothly with a click.
PS: sorry if this sounds like a rant – it isn’t. Just asking for info. I’m sure problems like this will eventually be solved in the Fediverse :)
You can use the Graze browser extension that will help with this.
Had never heard about it, cheers!
Edit: unfortunately it looks like it’s not open-source. I have some trust issues with close-source projects that handle my browsing.
understandable! No problem, just thought it could be useful, but realise you should make those choices carefully.
Try using a third-party app. I know Ice Cubes on iOS handles this really well.
Cheers, didn’t know about this possibility!
I’m glad you asked. This is one of the biggest challenges to fediverse adoption. We need a better way to handle this so the new users don’t have to figure it out — because most of them won’t
Glad to see my question wasn’t so dumb, cheers :)
