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How does one view the front page of another instance? (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago by onlyforthisair to c/lemmyworld

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i.e. in addition to "subscribed", "local", and "all", there should be an option labeled "instance" that lets you view what would be "local" on that instance.

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[–] ewe 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You just have to go to the instance and look at their "local."

e.g. https://lemmy.ml/

You won't be able to comment or interact unless you come back home to your instance though and look at the post/community from the place your user is.

[–] kender242 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That can be really awkward! So if I wanted to comment, I'd need to head back to my home instance and just to search for the thread I was looking at earlier. I know it's not the main usage model, but small things like this generate friction that make or break social media.

[–] ewe 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep! You're right. It doesn't help that people get confused because they get linked to a community on a different instance that references the instance domain (so it takes you to that server, where you are NOT a local user). I think community linking and link handling and also having a way to gently nudge users back onto their home instance while viewing content would be fantastic.

I was thinking this could be done with a "official" lemmy extension for Chrome/Firefox, where you can save your instance host and have it look for links that follow this format.

It would auto-change links from: [https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy)

To: [https://{your host}/c/[email protected]](https://{your host}/c/[email protected])

[–] ewe 3 points 1 year ago

Looks like someone has already done this for firefox (as of yesterday)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-link-redundant

Which looks like a copy of the kbin version...

https://addons.mozilla.org/af/firefox/addon/kbin-link/

I just tested it and it works, but it's only looking for specific types of links (example the link at the top right of a community like [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

[–] onlyforthisair 2 points 1 year ago

NSFW communities are blocked from local when logged out, so viewing their local is incomplete.