The link that gets generated when sharing a post or comment is not recognized by the app.

So if I send a link to a mate and then click it myself (or he does, doesnt matter), then the browser-app opens instead of the jerboa app.

Is there a possibility of fixing this? Or is it not possible because of the different instances which generate different urls?

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Unless lemmy (or whole fediverse) adopts it's own URI, for example https+fediverse://lemmy.world/..., then I don't see this happening.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Oh, thats disappointing.

    Couldn't one have a list of all instances and from that direct it to the app? Like links to youtube get opened by the YT app? Any lemmy.ml/... , lemmy.world/... , and so on get opened by the "lemmy-app" which is installed.

    Or doesnt this work like this?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Could work but would need frequent updates, as new instances are created (or rise in popularity).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    That would just be centralization again. Someone could attack that one site and bring the whole lemmyverse down.

    But I wonder if that list could be federated?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Someone could attack that one site and bring the whole lemmyverse down.

    not really - all it would do is be annoying to open links in apps. probably temporarily, as another would spring up

    matrix is decentralised, but they have matrix.to

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