Links to other instances always say I'm logged out (which, technically, I am) that makes the link useless.
For example, I am logged in at my home instance of https://midwest.social
If I click a link to go to https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support it takes me to that community, but I am not logged in (to lemmy.ml) so I am unable to meaningfully interact with it. I have to manually edit each lemmy URL that I go to in the URL bar in order for me to go to that community with my lemmy account.
So I need to manually change
https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support into https://midwest.social/c/[email protected] and I have to do this each time I click a link to another instance if I want to post there.
I've been a system administrator for 20 years, and this took me a few minutes to figure out. "Casual" users are just going to be SOL since they aren't going to be analyzing editing URLs to make them work. I feel like the only want to fix this is to have a browser addon intercept any lemmy URLs and modify them to work based on your home instance.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this just how it is?
can short links be used like /c/[email protected] ?
I suppose if people get used to doing that like /r/example for subreddits instead of linking https://reddit.com/r/example
Ideally, your interface could do this for you automatically, that would be ideal.