Yes, also Pleroma, Misskey, and all the other fediverse applications.
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.
How does it map the correct post on your own instance?
for Lemmy it primarily uses the API endpoint /resolve_object
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)
It’s analogous to the name LibRedirect so.
Thanks :'D
Kubuntu (Ubuntu but KDE), both great KDE UI and stable kernel. I use Kubuntu LTS.
See this: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/133647
For a two click solution: YunoHost
Disclaimer: I didn’t try it out myself.
Could be bc of how you set sorting comments in your account vs guest’s default.
Neither Piped, Invidious, LibreTube, nor NewPipe have this option:
The only thing I found is an app called SkyTube that has a Deny List and an Allow List.
Opposite to Instagram or Facebook, on Lemmy or Mastodon you can create an anonymous account. Yes it will be logged (normal public internet), but you won’t be treacable. The UI doesn’t have any tracking scripts, and many instances don’t require an email even to sign up. Use the Tor browser to spoof your IP.
What link you were trying to redirecti? And open an issue here for better tracking: https://github.com/ManeraKai/fediredirect/issues