All you said is true if you are browsing through your instance, but if you were browsing another instance's website and saw a post or if someone sent you a link to a post in an instance you don't use, then you should figure out a way to see that post through your instance. In Mastodon, you go to search and paste the post link. In Lemmy, you do something similar. Those can be done but are quite tedious. This problem is what FediRedirect aims to make solving it more convenient.
Let me show you some examples (you should be logged in to fosstodon, or it will redirect you to lemmy again):
- Programming Humor community: https://fosstodon.org/@programmer_humor@programming.dev
- ManeraKai account: https://fosstodon.org/@ManeraKai@programming.dev
- This current post: https://fosstodon.org/@ManeraKai@programming.dev/110699662543179133
- Your comment: https://fosstodon.org/@samokosik@lemmynsfw.com/110700725499366522
Support is getting better over time.
Yes :)
It can now work on Firefox Mobile, but Firefox doesn't allow installing any extension for security reasons (idk if for compatibility reasons too), you can only install "recommended extensions". There's a way to install it on Firefox Nightly, but that's too advanced.
Some redirections aren't supported (bc Mastodon isn't fully compatible with Lemmy), and sometimes it doesn't work bc of a server problem (your instance doesn't federate with that link's instance). However, FediRedirect is still in beta, open any issue here: https://github.com/ManeraKai/fediredirect.
Also, why does it require my login credentials.
For lemmy:
(Username and Password) or (jwt) are required for resolving /post and /comment. If Username and Password didn't work, go to your instance's cookies and copy your jwt.
Same for mastodon, but it only has the read:search permission (scopes aren't implemented in Lemmy yet)
I only browsed reddit through libreddit. I don't use social media at all, but told myself of why not giving the fediverse a shot, it can be the healthy social media. Though I'm still trying to find a good microblogging instance (mastodon, pleroma, misskey, akkoma, soapbox etc...). It's harder for me to get in microblogging unlike a forum website like lemmy.
Kubuntu (Ubuntu but KDE), both great KDE UI and stable kernel. I use Kubuntu LTS.
No, but I have "EVERYTHING" enabled in the settings.
Could be bc of how you set sorting comments in your account vs guest's default.
There is the first checkbox
ManeraKai
joined 1 year ago
Yes, also Pleroma, Misskey, and all the other fediverse applications.