Currently, if someone links to another threadiverse post in their post, it is seemingly handled as any other URL is and opened using the in-app browser. Instead, I suggest that such links be opened as posts directly, with the user having the option to tap the back button at the top left to return to the original post.
That’s helpful! I was trying to avoid building a giant list of known Threadiverse instances. I actually maintain my own crawler (https://crawler.blorpblorp.xyz/v1/instances.json), but filter out any instance with <20 monthly active users to keep the list small. I wonder if my list of crawled instances is complete enough to solve most use cases. Otherwise I might need to grab instances with <20 MAU.
Side note, if you are interested in hosting your own crawler instead of relying on https://data.lemmyverse.net/, you can fork my GitHub repo. It does the crawling as a free GitHub action.
Thanks, that’s super useful! We’ll have a look 👀 It would be great to not have to rely on third-party services like Lemmyverse that might go down for whatever reason