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lmmy.to, an instance-aware Lemmy redirector (derp.foo)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

I’d hereby like to announce lmmy.to, an instance-aware redirector for Lemmy that allows you to directly link people to Lemmy communities on their own instance.

As an example, try https://lmmy.to/c/[email protected].

I’ve created [email protected] to discuss it. There’s also a FAQ.

Edit: I've resolved the 500 error people were getting.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Thanks for the effort, but, unless I'm missing something, this is unnecessary because you can simply make a relative link like [this](/c/[email protected]) (this) and get the same effect. Also, as of 0.18.0, a string like /c/[email protected] automatically becomes a relative link, like this: /c/[email protected]

However, these relative links unfortunately don't work on non-lemmy activitypub sites like mastodon and kbin.

imo, despite this, for now an easy improvement that should be made is that lemmy's autocomplete functionality (when typing !communityname...) should be changed to generate relative links.

I haven't followed the discussion closely but there are multiple github issues about this problem. One is here and from it you can find some others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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/c/[email protected]

Woah, awesome. Indeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

However, these relative links unfortunately don’t work on non-lemmy activitypub sites like mastodon and kbin.

And that's exactly the reason why I created lmmy.to.