Annoyed by Lemmy links not going to your home instance? I just updated LULs, the script that changes all Lemmy links everywhere to your home instance!
Annoyed by Lemmy links not going to your home instance? I just updated LULs, the script that changes all Lemmy links everywhere to your home instance!
Ensures that all URLs to Lemmy instances always point to your main/home instance.
If you didn't already know about it, I included the full description after the release notes.
Release 1.3.0
- You can now add multiple secondary instances: so if you, like me, also have an account on lemmynsfw.com (or of course any other instance), you can add that there and not have links rewritten for that instance
- You can manually enter your home instance. Useful for self-hosted instances that didn't show up in my instance list.
Full Description Below:
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.
Also works on Firefox Android with the Tampermonkey extension!
Features
Rewrite links to Lemmy posts/comments to point to your home instance. Only after hovering over them, because getting home posts/comments links require communicating with the Lemmy servers, and we don't want to spam the servers.
Instantly rewrite all links of community or user links to Lemmy/kbin 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.
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:
Settings
If you want to change your home instance or add secondary instances in case you have multiple accounts, simply go to the script settings, accessible within Violent/Tampermonkey directly, or alternatively within any Lemmy instances' settings.
Common Issues
- Does not work with Greasemonkey. Use Violentmonkey (open source) or Tampermonkey (closed source) instead.
Coming soon
- Rewrite kbin post/comment links
- Better rewriting support for kbin community/user urls (e.g. sort options are currently ignored)
- Nicer tooltip styling (fit into page theme)
- Signify that "Show at home" button is loading for posts/comments
- Integrate with lmmy.to redirector
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing!
Does anyone know of any web tools or Shortcuts that can do the same thing on iOS?
7You can install userscripts on Safari on iOS. Dunno though if it actually works. That's the cool thing about user scripts, they work basically anywhere if you want to.
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Annoyed that fmhy got taken out
3wait what, what are you talking about?
3Annoyed that fmhy got taken out
Looks like it. lemmy.fmhy.ml:
Edit: 20230717 BBC — Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
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If I already have it installed in Tempermonkey, is there a way to update or do I need to remove and download again?
3It updates automatically through your configured update interval, or you can go to the page and click "update".
3You can update all userscripts with Tampermonkey. For me, it was in
Utilities -> Check for userscript updates.2
I don't know if it's intended behavior, but the 'context' button when viewing responses to your posts does not change to your home instance. I was trying to understand how to work around that yesterday. It appears the title link works, but now I'm not certain whether it's because of the script.
2Yeah that's what I thought. This is how those buttons look in code:
The problem is that there's no destination identifier attached. If you compare that with your name at the top of your comment:
, there's an <a>(andhref=) that identifies this as a link to somewhere. The buttons have no such identifying text with them, so I can't rewrite them because I don't know where they lead, it's hidden within the application logic somewhere.2I'll take a look when I'm back home :) could be that the context links aren't really "links" at all, but "buttons", which aren't detected by my script.
If you look at the post, you see some screenshots/videos, there's this little icon with two arrows in a circle that signifies if a link was rewritten, which is how you can check if it's working.
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I won't need i, but thank you on behalf of the ones who do.
2Thanks for the update
2Nice
2Would this work if I opened a link from an app to the browser? Or does it have to be a link clicked on within the browser?
Also what if the home instance uses a directory other than the default /c/ for communities?
2When you open a link from somewhere else, a "Show on home instance" link will be added to the top bar. Only within the browser will it automatically replace links.
I so far only support Lemmy. No one has made any other requests. So if not /c/ is used, it doesn't know how to handle communities.
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It was for the music in a linked game download, and owner decided to close up shop.
1Oh, I thought it had something to do with the script. I mean I guess I could keep defunct instances around, but idk how useful that would be, and how to verify that the domain didn't change to something completely unrelated...
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Hi @Azzu@lemm.ee, thanks for this great tool!
What is the best way to submit servers to be added? I notice that diagonlemmy.social doesn't seem to be on the list. I could edit the script at my end, but that would solve the problem only for me, and likely be overwritten next time the list is updated.
An a related note, is there a Lemmy community for LULs?
1I will update the instance list. I have a script that parses lemmyverse.net data and updates the list within the script, but I need to run it manually.
Generally all issues/requests can be added in https://gitlab.com/azzurite/lemmy-universal-link-switcher/-/issues. There is no Lemmy community for it. How did you find this? I had like 3 people suddenly write on this year old thread.
2I will update the instance list.
Thanks!
Generally all issues/requests can be added in https://gitlab.com/azzurite/lemmy-universal-link-switcher/-/issues.
I would need a GitLab account for that, correct? Is it worth it?
How did you find this? I had like 3 people suddenly write on this year old thread.
I went from my Violentmonkey dashboard to the GitLab page, searched Lemmy for "Azzurite", and this post was the top result. Once I commented, it must have shown up for users sorting by "New Comments".
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