• @tal
    link
    English
    225 days ago

    Compounded with the fact that the instance will try to load its own version of the link which may end up somewhere completely different.

    …I don’t see how.

    If someone links to a post on a remote instance, your home instance won’t rewrite the URL to point at a local view of the post. It’ll just have a link to that remote instance.

    Like, the problem that should come up isn’t that you see something random, but rather that you’re not on your home instance, which is obnoxious.

    If you’re manually copying post IDs and changing the instance name, yeah, that won’t work.

    There’s a decent chance it’s an issue with Jerboa as well on my end.

    I mean, maybe Jerboa tries rewriting URLs itself and there’s some kind of bug, I guess. I could be wrong, but the last time I was using Jerboa, which was some time back, I think that it might have opened them in my web browser instead of the client.

    checks to see what Eternity does

    It looks like Eternity goes to the remote instance, but does so in Eternity.

    The Firefox addon does it flawlessly, in my experience, so I can’t imagine that there’s any kind of great complexity in the mapping.

    I don’t know if there’s a way to link, in a universal way, to your home instance’s view of a comment, though. Just a post. The Firefox addon can’t do that.