• Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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    1 year ago

    As others have said, banglinking to posts or comments doesn’t work and I’m not aware of any method apart from extensions/userscripts to make sure the link is opened in your home instance.

    I will note though, that just clicking the normal link to the post when on Sync opens it in the app (and thus on my home instance) instead of opening a browser window, so that’s something.

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      1 year ago

      Just tried this on Sync, although lemmy.world itself was too flaky to let me reply on there (I think, sorry if this is a dupe).

      During that brief wheel-spinning, Sync fetches a local version of an absolute link (a ‘https’ link to a Community or a post). This is very impressive in a way, and if all mobile apps and browser front-ends did this, we’d barely need the ! type links at all. As it is though, Sync has just casually reinvented a Fediverse concept that’s been there since the beginning (which is a bit rude, although for posts definitely an improvement)

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, and ironically Sync struggles with certain link formats, so it’s not perfect yet. But being able to click direct links to posts and open them on your home instance is great.