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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] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this really necessary with v18 having this built-in?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, because not every link is on Lemmy itself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ah, but of course. That's great!

[–] trachemys 1 points 2 years ago

How is it builtin? I don’t see it in the changelog.

[–] trachemys 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It would be nice if the welcome page would tell you what community it will be redirecting you too. Right now it looks like something hijacked my browser; I don’t really trust it.

Also, I got error 500 after entering my hostname.

And it might take some effort. But if you had a searchable select box populated with a master list of instances, that might be pretty cool.

In the end, training everyone to make lmmy.to urls when they reference a community may be too difficult. This needs to be a builtin feature of the lemmi web ui somehow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, it needs some styling. Which is not my thing really. Anyone want to help?

I got error 500 after entering my hostname.

Huh, now it’s doing the same for me too. Yet it worked when I tried it before.

Edit: fixed now. I seem to have accidentally re-introduced a bug somewhere in the process of launching the site.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I put in "thelemmy.club" and it gives me 500 Internal errors

[–] [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)

test

/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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Genius. Great work!

[–] MinFapper 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh damn, I've been building the same thing at lemmy.guide.

We should team up!

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