Feature: Alternate Source Selector

Implementation Difficulty: Easy

Live Example: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/c/[email protected] (The “link” icon to the left of the post’s URL.)

Rationale: I’m quite annoyed with people whining “pAyWallED!” in news post comments, and this is Tesseract’s way of addressing that (for users of that UI, anyway)

Description:

On posts with links (that aren’t images, audio, video, Youtube, or other media), a dropdown menu is added with links to alternate sources.

Each one will search for the URL in the selected archive provider (currently Ghost Archive, Archive Today, 12ft.io) or Ground News (new in 1.4.5).

Lemmy-UI kind of does this, but completely ass-backwards (only during post creation to set the post link; I’ll spare you my spiel about how that’s a horrible vector for misinformation).

On Youtube-like posts (YT, Invidious, or Piped), the options are changed to go to the canonical YT link, your preferred Invidious instance, or your preferred Piped instance, but that’s just a secondary (but still nice) feature of that component.

Would love to see something like this more widely adopted and am more than happy to answer any implementation questions.

  • @USNWoodwork
    15•5 months ago

    Lemmy has apps available? I’ve been using a browser this whole time. I used the stock reddit app for years too. I’m such a dunce. Can someone point me toward a decent app?

      • Ænima
        4•5 months ago

        I use both, myself. Jerboa is my NSFW Lemmy login and Voyager is my daily driver for Lemmy. I think both are really awesome, but Voyager’s “hide read posts” saves my sanity!

    • @Asclepiaz
      8•5 months ago

      I barely know what lemmy is, something something fediverse. I use the sync app, moved over from sync for Reddit.

    • @irreticent
      8•5 months ago

      The Boost for Lemmy app is pretty good.

    • Communist
      8•5 months ago

      My favorites are sync and thunder, but I recommend thunder since it’s FOSS, i’m just waiting for hold to peek.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•5 months ago

      https://lemmy.ca/post/26097116?scrollToComments=true

      There are 3 apps that pass the “Does this actually display posts correctly?” test:

      • Jerboa
      • Alexandrite
      • Voyager

      Everything else should be considered in a testing phase. Don’t pay for an app that can’t do spoilers correctly.

      Edit: Don’t pay for an app that doesn’t format text correctly in general, but not doing spoilers correctly is probably the most jarring.

      • XylightEnglish
        3•5 months ago

        That’s not a great interpretation of that test, as some can fail for reasons other than spoilers, or some clients may be better than ones with higher scores (as explained in the disclaimers page)

        • @[email protected]English
          1•5 months ago

          I agree that you shouldn’t pay for any app that doesn’t format text correctly, no matter how it fails, but I think the worst offender is spoilers.

          Something being left-aligned in a table instead of centre-aligned probably isn’t going to destroy the intent, message, or general flow of a post.
          A bot that makes posts 4 lines before you expand it but is instead always 24+ lines long, is a little jarring and disruptive. A post with a riddle, joke, or piece of trivia whose answer is displayed ruins the point.
          Granted, the apps that turn subscript into strike-through are also shitty, but I don’t see subscript being used nearly as often.

    • @[email protected]
      4•5 months ago

      Artic On iOS has been really enjoyable for me. Voyager is a close second. My biggest pet peeve with voyager is not hiding the bars on scroll. Otherwise I would use it.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•5 months ago

      I just installed the default app that it prompted me with. I wonder if other apps can have meaningful more features?

      • @[email protected]
        1•5 months ago

        Jerboa? I don’t mind it, but I’d experiment with other apps if there’s a chance you think you’ll like their UI better. It’s all about preference. That was the thing I hated about Reddit losing all their apps.