I don’t know if it’s possible on sh.itjust.works, or if it’s better to ask this to Lemmy devs directly, but would it be possible to detect and convert automatically links to communities and posts so that when clicking on them, we are redirected to them in sh.itjust.works view of them, being able to interact with them ?
Example: detect that c/main@sh.itjust.works or !main@sh.itjust.works are lemmy community links, and so, HTMLify them to link to https://sh.itjust.works/c/main@sh.itjust.works
Another example: c/newcommunities@lemmy.world or !newcommunities@lemmy.world to be transformed as a link to https://sh.itjust.works/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
This does not need to know what url are lemmy or not, simply having an url beginning with “c/” or “/c/” or “!” and containing a “@” could be transformed to a clickable link, without needing the user to do copy paste and changing and stuff to access the link that can be provided by any other users on other federations
Current best way is for the user that post a message, to write the link in this format [some title](/c/xxx@fede.xx), other formats will not be recognized, and full urls beginning with http will change the website (so we are no more able to act).
Known issue. It’ll be worked into the platform someday. Use plug-ins until then.
Thanks ! Following your links, I’ve made my own userscript to find !community@instance and /c/community@instance in the page on load, and replace them with links to where they redirect (using sh.itjust.works urls)
Unfortunately, I didn’t find a way to do it for links to posts :( But at least, for communities, it will work
If interested: https://pastebin.com/Q4dxHMEe
As an example, this very post becomes:
Very nice :))) Sad that we never get the idea on how to do posts. I know that it’s possible to search a post or comment link from any instance to find it (image below), but afaik this is not possible through the API even if you’re authenticated. I’ve tried a lot. I’ll probably use your script :) Let’s see how it goes. Thank you for sharing!
Here is a userscript that makes this work:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/33762 (just make sure to change the home instance variable).
And also recommended, to find previously undiscovered communities when your instance gives you a 404 and fetch them for the first time: https://reddthat.com/post/69331
You will need greasemonkey for firefox or tampermonkey for chrome. Plug those scripts in and they’ll do the work for you by rewriting the urls.
@Jakylla@sh.itjust.works At some point I saw that and I got a problem with it. I made a fix so it worked on my machine. If you test that one and it doesn’t work, maybe check out this one too. https://sh.itjust.works/post/70143
Yeah, this is a common issue. Even if you know to link, many people don’t. Nothing like having a bunch of egress-links where you end up in another instance.
Perhaps it’d be mitigated if you could use lemmy instance as a client for your own login and somehow “share” the credentials between them. But that doesn’t seem to be happening either.
Using ! then the community name creates a proper universal link, but the script is broken and you have to manually edit it: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36299
Ideally the instance software should allow a user to set a ‘automatically resolve community egress links locally’ option. Until then it’ll annoy regular users who’re not going to bother with greasemonkey userscripts.
Oh, the exciting world of being an early adopter!
