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1. Mori (mori@mastodon.au)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 04:37:18 JST Mori

   • Eugen Rochko
   • Fedi.Tips 🎄

   How come when I’m in the official #Mastodon app and I click a link to a mastodon post, it opens a web browser within the app and shows me the post in the mastodon web client and I’m not logged in?

   Why doesn’t it just navigate to the post within the app, as if I had just clicked any regular post in a timeline?

   It’s a bit weird. Am I missing something? Am I doing something wrong?

   @feditips @Gargron

   • marqle (marqle@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 04:42:55 JST marqle

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Fedi.Tips 🎄
     • Fedilab Apps

     @mori @feditips @Gargron

     Not all clients do that to be fair and it's not much to do with Gargron.

     You need a client that follows threads across instances. The two I use do this; #senji on desktop and @apps on Android.

     I've more or less stopped using #ios but #metatext used to do the job well when I left the Apple cart.

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 04:43:26 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

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     • marqle

     @marqle @mori

     It's not as simple as that any more.

     A lot of apps now open the links directly instead of in a browser.

     I did a survey about this a while ago and most people said Mastodon links open for them within the app.

     Weirdly though, even people on the same app and platform sometimes get different results.

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 04:47:15 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

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     • marqle

     @marqle @mori

     Just to be clear, I'm not an app maker or any kind of official account 😀

     I'm just a random person trying to help people use this place.

   • marqle (marqle@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 04:47:16 JST marqle

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     • Fedi.Tips 🎄

     @feditips @mori

     But it still works seamlessly for me in your app. Am I just lucky or are you just working hard to keep it seamless :)