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New: Automaticlly turn remote fediverse links into local links (peertube.wtf)

submitted 1 day ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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One of the long-standing issues we have in/on the fediverse is that when I have a link in my post that goes to another post on my instance, people on other instances will click that link and be taken to MY instance, where they can't comment, don't have an account, aren't logged in, etc and they will try to log in using their login credentials for their home instance then wonder why it doesn't work.

When someone links to https://lemmy.world/post/39832275 and I'm on piefed.social I want to see https://piefed.social/c/news/p/1544770/national-parks-ordered-to-check-gift-shops-for-dei-type-items not the copy on lemmy.world!

As of PieFed v1.4, links like that will automatically be converted to link to the local copy of the post, where 'local' is whatever is local for the reader. See the linked video where I demonstrate this in action.

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[-] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 12 points 22 hours ago

Absolutely going into my pitch on why piefed is worth using. Fixing small annoyances like this is super important to people sticking around after that initial joining stage.

[-] Solano@piefed.social 3 points 17 hours ago

Big change! Kudos!

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 17 hours ago

Awesome!

[-] Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

Beautiful

[-] eleijeep@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

This solves one of the most annoying problems with lemmy! Great work, thank you.

[-] rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

This is very awesome! I imagine most of us who floated over a couple years ago have figured out ways of making this happen, but what a huge obstacle for newcomers. Huge news!!!

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 hours ago

I have the reverse problem that when I'm on PieFED using blorp and I want to share a post, it always shares the blorp version of the post. When I would ideally like to share the canonical URL and give credit to the original source. Voyager and lemmy has a way to specify this option for sharing, but as far as I can tell blorp does not.

[-] wjs018@piefed.social 3 points 15 hours ago

@moseschrute@lemmy.world FYI

Something about this feature @rimu@piefed.social is showing off is that it is only doing the link substitution in the web frontend. Any links in posts/comments will remain unchanged in the API that clients like blorp and voyager. This lets the different clients deal with this as they would like.

It might be possible to do this substitution on PieFed's side for API responses, but I think it should not be the default. We would need some way for an API client to indicate that this is what would be desired.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago

I think you can get the canonical url using 'view post source' in the 3 dot menu?

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Mine doesn't have that.

[-] Blaze@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Amazing!

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

This is huge news!:-)

this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025

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