Lemmy Plugins and Userscripts

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[UserScript] Lemmy Universal Link switcher, or LULs for short (greasyfork.org)

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

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Description

Lemmy Universal Link Switcher, or LULs for short, scans all links on all websites, and if any link points to a Lemmy instance that is not your main/home instance, it rewrites the link so that it instead points to your main instance. Currently only works for community/user links.

Home Instance Setup

Simply visit the Lemmy instance you want to set as your home while the script is active. You will be asked if you want to set this instance to your home instance:
home

If you initially set your home instance wrong or just want to change it, no worries - simply go to your settings on your new home instance and press the button for it!

Features

Rewrite all links of communities or users on all websites everywhere to your new instance! The rewritten links will have an icon next to it, and hovering/touching the icon will show you the original link, allowing you to go there if you want to.
If you are already on a page that has a corresponding page on your home instance, a link will automatically be added to the page header.

Coming soon

Post & comment links. Those are a bit harder because the URL has to be requested from the instances.

Repository & Issues

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (27 children)

I installed it on Firefox with Greasemonkey. I don't get the dialog asking if I want to set my instance to my home instance, and I have no button in my settings. So, at the moment, the script appears to be inoperative.

Edit: Tried a few more things. I visited several other instances, other than my home instance of lemmy.ca, and still don't get any dialog about setting an instance to my home instance. Greasemonkey shows the script as enabled, but that's it. I'm running Firefox 114.0.2 on Arch Linux.

Edit2: Attempted to post an issue at the referenced Gitlab page, but this page does not exist, and a search for this project was a dead end. I have disabled the script until/unless the authors provide more information as to what is going on.

Edit3: Found the Gitlab project. The provided URL on the Greasyfork page is incorrect. It should be https://gitlab.com/foundry-azzurite/lemmy-rewrite-links

I will leave an issue.

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

Went to bed after I posted this. Will take a look in a bit.

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