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[–] moonleay@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sorry to be like this, but what is this link?

I get redircted outside of my Lemmy App (because it is a 3rd party URL) and then get advertised a Lemmy client, which I don't even like, only for its page to only show a preview and in order to actually view the linked post I have to open the original WebUI of the Lemmy instance linked on the advertising page of voyager?

And it got the balls to tell me that its the best experience?

What the fuck Voyager??

[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 15 hours ago

I think @Zarxrax@lemmy.world is using the rich text editor, this is a bug already fixed in the latest version. Voyager is supposed to unwrap vger.to links on paste.

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

seems to be an issue on your end:

also on voyager and it's working as expected!

click link > opens post within voyager

maybe a settings issue or a bug?

[–] moonleay@feddit.org 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Voyager made this website and probably added these URLs as supported links.

I am not on voyager, but on thunder and it does not work, since there links are not the standard share link. I tested using normal links in a comment and it works there.

So while in theory Thunder could add support for these Links, I really just whished that Voyager would stop advertising themselves whenever somebody shares a link with their client.

The actions of Voyager seem malicious; no other Lemmy (or mastodon client) that I know of does not directly link to the post in question and rather just advertises itself like an adfly page.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 15 hours ago

It’s a bug already fixed, vger.to links should always unwrap on paste into a comment or post!

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

oh, sry, i read that wrong!

yes, that's a voyager link, although that should probably open in the browser version by default, since voyager, afaik, does have a web version...

fyi: it's not malice, there's actually a good reason for generating these links!

it's so different instances can be shared through the same home instance, i.e.: so i can share a link from feddit.org with someone on lemmy.world, and they can still access it within the same client, through their own home instance without requiring a new login, etc.

it's a limitation of lemmy and voyager offers a workaround ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] moonleay@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That makes way more sense. I would question it, since my client (Thunder) manages the same without requiring to rewrite the URL.

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

no idea if there's a better way, that's just how i remember the reasoning...guess there's probably ways!