Due to the federated nature of Lemmy there's one small problem: if you link to a community (let's say https://lemmings.world/c/wwdits) the link takes people out of their instance.
On Lemmy it can be solved easily - use [email protected] and the community opens on their own instance.
But the problem still exists outside Lemmy, let's say you write a blog post and link to some community - people who already use Lemmy will again be taken out of their instance.
And to solve this I created this project, available on https://lemmyverse.link and https://threadiverse.link (both are the exact same app).
Instead of https://lemmings.world/c/wwdits you link to https://lemmyverse.link/c/[email protected] and you're greeted with this:
You can either continue directly if you don't care, or you can set your home instance and afterwards every link at https://lemmyverse.link will automatically be redirected to your preferred instance (with a small countdown allowing you to change your instance):
If enough people start linking using this service, it will greatly improve the experience for Lemmy users!
Let me know what you think!
Edit: Source code is here: https://github.com/RikudouSage/lemmyverse.link
If you change the format to
https://lemmyverse.link/?id=https://lemmings.world/c/wwdits, it will automatically work with posts and comments too, as well as objects on other Fediverse platforms. In this case you are storing the Activitypub id of each object, which you can use with resolve_object api call to view it from a given Lemmy instance. Plus it can easily be rewritten by a human to remove the leading domain in case it goes down.Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]