I made a userscript (eventually converted into a userstyle) so I could go sightseeing across lemmy and spot all you animals out in the wild. pawb.social, pawb.fun, and furry.engineer are pre-filled already, but you can add other servers to track as well!
Edit: Special mention to [email protected] for this post, whose techniques resulted in CSS to achieve parity with my userscript. My older userscript should not be used anymore, as the CSS will do the same thing but more efficiently.
Instructions:
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Install Stylus extension for firefox/chrome
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"Write new style" in the addon settings
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Copy paste the CSS code below in
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Modify the code around line ~11 in order to reflect your homeserver and any additional frendservers that you want to highlight. Currently it's set to pawb.social and the mastodon servers that pawb.social also operates, but feel free to add some of the furry instances below as well (post in the comments if you've got a good furry instance to add here!):
- yiffit.net
- meow.social
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Modify the code around line ~19 to reflect your homeserver
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(Optional) If you'd like your homeserver buddies to have a different marker, uncomment the various sections around line ~27 through ~50 by removing the
/*and*/bits -
(Optional) Play around with different markers and colors!
CSS/Userstyle: https://gist.github.com/redyoshi49q/f1b2d1da0a8f7536aba1f8c3110d2dd8
I updated the script here: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468689-frend-detector-lemmy
From a userscript side I think what you want is not super easy. I'm more of a backend guy than a web dev so maybe I'm missing something obvious, but best case I think you'd only get a couple posts at a time with a script solution, since the server is going to serve you a ton of junk you don't want before you filter it out with a script. To my (limited) knowledge, there's no way to ask the server for specific communities so you get a full page worth of useful content.
I think the main thing we need is multi-community support (e.g. r/furry+secretfurryagenda+furry_irl on reddit), the ability to view the local timeline of another lemmy instance, and possibly those two ideas combined into multi-local-instance timeline. I think this sort of feature is only doable by the actual lemmy team via feature request on the lemmy github: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues
I'm super new to lemmy though, so I might be missing something!
Yeah, you're right. You would probably have lots of empty pages. Hopefully it's something that is implemented soon on the server side
I found this issue for the local timeline part: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3105 and this issue for the multi-community part: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071
So looks like the community is already on the case. If you have a github account, give it a thumbs up and we're on our way!
Will do once I'm back at my desktop. Thank you <3