Update: I’m on Universeodon, which has comparatively modest numbers compared to mastodon.social. Mastodon.social has registered 249 boosts as of now! Favourites are difficult to measure but based on upvotes registered on lemmy.ml minus the ones registered by mander.xyz it’ll be around 400. Way to go, Fediverse!

Well that didn’t quite work, did it? Here’s the screenshot:

Yeah. I really hope someone writes a Firefox extension or something which automatically redirects all Fediverse links to one’s preferred instances. Enforcing a standard across a giant decentralised network is difficult.

While I completely agree, a partial solution is to use clients that open fediverse links locally. I use Eternity which does it nicely.

Here’s a link to @maxprime@lemmy.ml’s comment: https://lemmy.ml/comment/6075385

For your first question, I found this: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/getfederatedinstances

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