i find it annoying to have to manually change urls to subscribe to a community outside lemmy.world, so i wrote a bookmarklet to quickly switch to the lemmy.world instance
to use, just drag the following code to your bookmarks bar (name it whatever you like), then click it when you want to use it
javascript:(function(){const myInst="lemmy.world";let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");let currInst=currUrl[2];currUrl[2]=myInst;if(currUrl[3]=="m"){currUrl[3]="c";}let newUrl=currUrl.join("/");if(!(currUrl[-1].includes("@"))){newUrl=newUrl+"@"+currInst;}window.location=newUrl;})()
readable version:
javascript:(
function() {
// make sure to change this if using on a different instance
const myInst="lemmy.world";
let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");
let currInst=currUrl[2];
currUrl[2]=myInst;
// fix for kbin using "m" instead,
// without overriding /u/ for user
if (currUrl[3]=="m") {
currUrl[3]="c";
}
let newUrl=currUrl.join("/");
// fix for already foreign instances (e.g. lemm.ee/c/[email protected])
if (!currUrl[-1].includes("@")) {
newUrl=newUrl+"@"+currInst;
}
window.location=newUrl;
})
()
old version
javascript:(function(){const myInst="lemmy.world";let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");let currInst=currUrl[2];currUrl[2]=myInst;currUrl[3]="c";let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;window.location=newUrl;})()
readable version:
javascript:(
function() {
// make sure to change this if using on a different instance
const myInst="lemmy.world";
let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");
let currInst=currUrl[2];
currUrl[2]=myInst;
currUrl[3]="c"; // fix for kbin using "m" instead
let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;
window.location=newUrl;
})
()
update 2023-06-27: add compatibility for kbin magazines
update 2023-07-01: compatibility with users, kbin, and already foreign instances
Thanks that super useful, especially in places like /c/newcommunities where people (including me) are still unsure how to properly link communities.
You goddamn hero.
do you know of any way to switch not a community but a post to another instance? afaik they’re numeric so the number identifier is different on each instance which makes it hard.
i’m afraid i don’t. i did fiddle around a bit trying to find a relationship between url’s, but I couldn’t see one
if anyone more familiar with lemmy/activitypub can tell me, I’ll update / add to the bookmarklet
You probably understood me the first time but I’m editing because I made a mistake in how I phrased it.
to another
community→ instancethe number identifier is different on each
community→ instancefor clarity, i’m presuming you’re talking about redirecting from e.g. this [https://lemmy.ml/post/1190997] to this [https://lemmy.world/post/38761]
but yeah, i’m afraid i can’t help [yet?]
Staying on your home instance is currently an issue on the repo. Implementing it yourself would need using the search, which is complicated because it only works through a websocket connection.
i’m glad that’s being tracked, as a bookmarklet is not really a great solution; but it’s still not a complete solution. if i visit a lemmy post from outside lemmy.world (e.g. search engine), then there’s no way to go to the l.w version (to my knowledge)
Do you know if the process works differently in FireFox? (Note that technically I use Ghostery but it’s based in Firefox). I copied the script to a new bookmark URL and changed lemmy.world to lemmy.one since thats the instance I’m registered on. However, when clicked nothing happens. Is there something I’m missing?
i can tell you that i made and currently use it with firefox…
sanity check, when you select edit bookmark it should look like this
however, i don’t know about ghostery (i didn’t even know they made a browser). it’s possible they block arbitrary js for security reasons? it would be a dumb choice in my opinion, but i guess it’s protecting you from yourself?
however i can tell you a couple of things. this doesn’t work with some communities (they just 404), but that happens if one puts the url in manually. i don’t know when or why this happens, but it does seem to happen a lot with lemmy.one. i wonder if it’s a l.1 federation issue
Interesting. ok I’ll dig further into it being Ghostery related then.
For your sanity, yes, looks relatively the same on me end when I edit bookmark.
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No worries at all. I actually found a post working on a FF extension that I think will work. https://beehaw.org/post/493791. Similar idea, but adds an icon to the left of links.
I appreciate you taking the time to look into it though!
weird - sorry i couldn’t help… : (
also, you should replace
const myInst="lemmy.world";withconst myInst = window.location.hostname;, it automatically fetches what instance you’re on.that (unless i’m misunderstanding) isn’t the point of it. it’s made for quickly taking you from e.g.
https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboatohttps://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], so it needs a const to know which instance to take you toedit: i guess i could replace
let currInst=currUrl[2];withlet currInst=window.location.hostname;but i can’t see a practical difference and so i chose the shorter one
i’ll be honest, i’m not sure what that’s for? is it moving to another account if you want to change your home instance? if so, that’s a good idea, i could add it to the post if you want in case this comment gets buried
spoiler
although i’m not entirely certain using https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere/issues/301 is a great idea…
I didn’t want to use it but I didn’t see any other way to tackle the cors issue
Tried this with a throwaway, but it’s broken.
Subscription location has changed.
When corrected, it asks to visit https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/corsdemo to request access. Despite doing so, it never gets past that point.
When/if you fix it, you might give some context about how you’re handling user credentials.
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