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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

While I completely agree, a partial solution is to use clients that open fediverse links locally. I use Eternity which does it nicely.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That works for a Lemmy user, but it doesn't help for sharing on other platforms or for users discovering content elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I really hope someone writes a Firefox extension or something which automatically redirects all Fediverse links to one's preferred instances. Enforcing a standard across a giant decentralised network is difficult.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

There are a few extensions, but I don't think there's one extension to rule them all yet: