Description

Lemmy Universal Link Switcher, or LULs for short, scans all links on all websites, and if any link points to a Lemmy instance that is not your main/home instance, it rewrites the link so that it instead points to your main instance.

Also works on Firefox Android with the Tampermonkey extension!

Features

  • Rewrite links to Lemmy posts/comments to point to your home instance. Only after hovering over them, because getting home posts/comments links require communicating with the Lemmy servers, and we don’t want to spam the servers.

  • Instantly rewrite all links of community or user links to Lemmy/kbin on all websites everywhere to your new instance! The rewritten links will have an icon next to it, and hovering/touching the icon will show you the original link, allowing you to go there if you want to.
    community links being rewritten

  • If you are already on a page that has a corresponding page on your home instance, a link will automatically be added to the page header.
    the header link to your home instance when already on a remote post

Home Instance Setup

Simply visit the Lemmy instance you want to set as your home while the script is active. You will be asked if you want to set this instance to your home instance:
popup to select home instance

If you initially set your home instance wrong or just want to change it, no worries - simply go to your settings on your new home instance and press the button for it!
button to set your new home instance

Common Issues

Coming soon

  • Rewrite kbin post/comment links
  • Better rewriting support for kbin community/user urls (e.g. sort options are currently ignored)
  • Nicer tooltip styling (fit into page theme)
  • Signify that “Show at home” button is loading for posts/comments
  • @[email protected]OP
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    11 year ago

    Sorry, I didn’t really build this with kbin users in mind, since I also don’t use kbin. My motivation to add features I wouldn’t get a benefit from is quite low, I’m so selfish to say :D but maybe I’ll get around to it.

    • @Coelacanth
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      11 year ago

      I’m mostly using Lemmy too since Kbin has some issues, but many people seem to enjoy it so I keep an account there too just in case. Honestly I’d maybe use it more if your script worked on it haha. Anyway, I’ll keep tracking this just in case, and as I said it’s been great so far for Lemmy.