Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app
bonenode@piefed.social 1 day agoYou mean the app that inserts ads to itself into links you share, by default? Yes it can be switched off but why does this need to be there in the firat place?
Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app
bonenode@piefed.social 1 day agoYou mean the app that inserts ads to itself into links you share, by default? Yes it can be switched off but why does this need to be there in the firat place?
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah, the one that gives a great deal of ways to customize sharing of links for those that aren’t already using Lemmy Redirect.
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bonenode@piefed.social 1 day ago
Cool beans. Not what I mentioned. But I am not trying to change your mind either.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
It is related to how sharing links is handled especially in the Fediverse where anything could be on a different server and who you are sending it to could likely be on a different server. Not trying to change your mind about Voyager, but that’s the reason why it is the way it is. It was really aggravating in the early days of the 3rd party app rexodus when opening a link would instead open a web link to said server in a browser instead of in app if you wanted to interact.
bonenode@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Great. Now do me the favour, select the first option in that list ”Voyager app (vger.to)” and open a link shared like that it in a browser, not in Voyager (important, it might automatically do that for you since you got it installed) and tell me what you see. That is set as the default link sharing behaviour and that is what I am criticising.
Maybe you don’t care about it and as a Voyager user you will never see that. But I care because I keep seeing more and more people sharing these links, which instead of actually linking me to the thread in question, in MY app of choice, lead to my browser opening, showing me the content plus a quick plug to the Voyager app.