This has been in my head for months that one big problem with the fediverse is that you can get linked for a fediverse service but to an instance your not on and you have to find your instance and hope it's federated to the account your looking for.

I did run into this problem when I made a peertube plug in and I wanted to like videos but I had to paste in an instance just to get 404 error.

Plug in already exist, but if not it might be useful to make it

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 12 points 5 days ago

PieFed rewrites the links to their local equivalent.

[–] Adverse_Reaction@anarchist.nexus 6 points 5 days ago

There is this: https://gitlab.com/azzurite/lemmy-universal-link-switcher

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 5 days ago

I use one for PeerTube and another for Lemmy. Firefox addons.

Can’t remember the names, but should be fairly easy to find.

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 4 days ago

PieFed has this out of the box. You click a link at your home instance once on the browser you use. After that, you can get from any post on an unknown instance to yours by adding a few letters in the front of the URL on that browser.