i find it annoying to have to manually change urls to subscribe to a community outside lemmy.world, so i wrote a bookmarklet to quickly switch to the lemmy.world instance

to use, just drag the following code to your bookmarks bar (name it whatever you like), then click it when you want to use it

javascript:(function() {const myInst="lemmy.world";let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");let currInst=currUrl[2];currUrl[2]=myInst;let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;window.location=newUrl;})())

readable version:

javascript:(
	function() {
		// make sure to change this if using on a different instance
		const myInst="lemmy.world";
		let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");
		let currInst=currUrl[2];
		currUrl[2]=myInst;
		let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;
		window.location=newUrl;
	})
()
  • Yoru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    also, you should replace const myInst="lemmy.world"; with const myInst = window.location.hostname;, it automatically fetches what instance you’re on.

    • Ɀeus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      that (unless i’m misunderstanding) isn’t the point of it. it’s made for quickly taking you from e.g. https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], so it needs a const to know which instance to take you to

      edit: i guess i could replace let currInst=currUrl[2]; with let currInst=window.location.hostname; but i can’t see a practical difference and so i chose the shorter one

  • Yoru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hello, I just made a new bookmarklet where it automatically transfers all of your subscribed communities to another instance, can be found here

    • Ɀeus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      i’ll be honest, i’m not sure what that’s for? is it moving to another account if you want to change your home instance? if so, that’s a good idea, i could add it to the post if you want in case this comment gets buried

      spoiler

      although i’m not entirely certain using https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere/issues/301 is a great idea…

    • Gamera8ID@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Tried this with a throwaway, but it’s broken.

      Subscription location has changed.

      When corrected, it asks to visit https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/corsdemo to request access. Despite doing so, it never gets past that point.

      When/if you fix it, you might give some context about how you’re handling user credentials.

  • God@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    do you know of any way to switch not a community but a post to another instance? afaik they’re numeric so the number identifier is different on each instance which makes it hard.

    • Ɀeus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      i’m afraid i don’t. i did fiddle around a bit trying to find a relationship between url’s, but I couldn’t see one

      if anyone more familiar with lemmy/activitypub can tell me, I’ll update / add to the bookmarklet

        • Ɀeus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          i’m glad that’s being tracked, as a bookmarklet is not really a great solution; but it’s still not a complete solution. if i visit a lemmy post from outside lemmy.world (e.g. search engine), then there’s no way to go to the l.w version (to my knowledge)