How to use relative links when linking to Steem pages - No, don't!
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Steem used to be an uncensored, decentralized platform - until Justin Sun bought Steemit and used its stake to become a dictator, handpicking the witnesses, censoring posts and stealing balances. That's why I removed this post and started blogging on Hive. You can still read all my posts there.
As you said :
You're absolutely right; it's not a smooth process. As a user, I'd be discouraged, I don't think I'd vote or comment there.
I'd not mind if there was a way to automatically convert links and I also wouldn't mind if users were given a choice to select which site they want to visit.
AFAIK, changing the behavior while keeping the original URL would be easy to implement in an app but difficult in a browser.
I don't know much about it, but I believe if there are people working on it, sooner or later they will find a solution to this.
I'm afraid we're going to need a special type of reference for this, like at-mentions or hashtags. Maybe something based on account name and post number.