Post #2997384

2022-12-19 16:15 UTC

@markloundy@mastodon.online @digitalbits@universeodon.com @petersterne@mastodon.social Through a timeline or app that's relatively easy. But if you get a permalink to a post, and you're not logged into the instance it's on, and you try to interact with it in any way, you get these cumbersome popups. Copying and pasting the url of the post or user into your own server is not a low friction pathway. I think there are chrome extensions that will make this simpler, but that's not a widespread solution.

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@digitalbits@universeodon.com 2022-12-19 19:26

@fields@hachyderm.io @markloundy@mastodon.online @petersterne@mastodon.social Thanks for sharing. That hasn't been my experience, but I think your experience brings up a good point. Barriers of adoption exist as mileage will vary considerably depending on which combination of server/domain you sign up with, plus app you choose to use.

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@ticktok@fosstodon.org 2022-12-20 01:23

@fields@hachyderm.io @markloundy@mastodon.online @digitalbits@universeodon.com @petersterne@mastodon.social yea, there's already been browser plugins made to combat this, but it definitely would be nice to have some kind of in-built way to handle it. That said, I'm sometimes logged into more than one instance, so I don't know how an in-built option would be able to handle that. The copying and pasting of the url into your instance's search seems to be the easiest way atm.

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@meganox@mas.to 2022-12-20 03:19

@fields@hachyderm.io @markloundy@mastodon.online @digitalbits@universeodon.com @petersterne@mastodon.social People need to be educated to use the share button instead of copying the link from their browser address bar

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