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YSK: you should use this lemmy link switcher script (via violentMonkey) (greasyfork.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This script transforms links from other instances to your home instance. So useful :)

As @[email protected] explained:

It makes it so that if you visit another instance using their URL, it will redirect you to your home version’s federated link.

E.g. if your home server is Lemmy.world, let’s say you find a link to Lemmy on another website but it’s a link to Lemmy.ml. If you click the link, you won’t be signed in.

So like: https://lemmy.ml/c/memes would redirect to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

This way you can seamlessly use Lemmy.

It does the same for posts.

Edit: since it works from any site, I highly recommend you to add it to your Android browser so it will work with webapp clients here's how:

You can use violentMonkey on ff browser too, but you need to unlock Dev options, then do this

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Author here, any questions or issues can be directed to me :)

And yes, I'm doing it for the luls

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tnx for your great work!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does it detect that a link is a lemmy link? Also, does this work on any website or just lemmy? Can it also handle things like opening a link from an app outside of the browser?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You should look at the link this post points to, the description of the script answers 2/3 :D

A link is detected by keeping a list of all instances and just matching them to that list. Currently contains 1188 instances sourced from https://lemmyverse.net/
Yes, any website
Yes, not immediately, but you get a "Show on [HOME INSTANCE]" link at the top

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

How it find posts tho?

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

It basically just asks your home server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do we get this into lemour?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what that is and I can't seem to find any relevant information doing a web search

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah sorry it's called Jebora

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see. I think there are already efforts towards that. This is mainly supposed to be for the browser and not my domain.

And honestly, I don't really get why you'd need an app if the official web UI works perfectly well on a mobile browser :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better push notifications
smaller scope for browser storage permission
smoother (and more) animations
better multi account support

I think there are even more reasons.

This is mainly supposed to be for the browser and not my domain.

What do you mean? I wanted it in an app, not domain spicific.

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

You're in a thread about me answering questions for a browser extension, asking about a mobile app. I think it's more appropriate to ask: what do you mean? I have nothing to do with a mobile app.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But its obviously a great functionality. We could think of setting it up as a proper library with good interfaces so you could just pull it into your code.

In the end we are making open source software to improve the platform, so you could also submit your algorithm to the projects.

I'm sorry I thought this thread is about asking questions and having a discussion about the feature and your code

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The native Jerboa app does not use any JavaScript. The code is not and can not be compatible. The "algorithm" I use is like 10 lines of code, I wrote the base of it in like 1 hour. Most of the rest of the code is solely about handling the weirdness of browsers and having it work in all kinds of different websites, all of which jerboa wouldn't care about.

I could probably implement the feature in jerboa in 3-4 hours, depending on how easy it is to get into the Android app ecosystem. But I don't use jerboa and don't care much about it, so I won't, unless somebody wants to pay me which I don't think is happening.

If you had made this comment from the start, I could have responded like I did now. As it were, I saw someone talking about some random app I didn't care about. I didn't have the context that was in your head, that you only now supplied in this comment.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes don't get me wrong, like its a cool feature, but I am very well aware that it's neither complex nor a lot of work, but it has to start somewhere. I was just trying to encourage pushing good features to the whole platform. But I got you, you internalized the idea behind FOSS, decentralized digital infrastructure structure owned by people not big corp, you want to be paid for your 10 line "algorithm".It's OK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lol, why don't you do it then?

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

I will most probably do that. I also thought about hitting your repository with a merge request and more optimized code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds good :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I just wish sopuli's webapp wouldn't crash on me immediately. It's just feels a bit different when not full screened ^^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's weird, what browser do you have? I use Firefox for Android and everything is full screen and no crashes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mull. Other instances' webapps works fine as I stated here. Maybe the admin editted something that broke it? Idk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No website should ever crash a browser. It could be some weird things happening on sopuli.xyz but I would take this up with the browser developer, it looks more like a fault of the browser than the website, especially as everything works in other browsers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems logical, but I tried it on few browsers (some isolated on my work account so cookies make no difference), all ff based though. All crashed only with sopuli, which I find really weird, because sopuli should be using the same software as anyone else. Maybe it's the webview itself? (Using Mulch wv, although I'm not sure if mull using it) that'll explain why it happens on both fennec and Mull, but not why only sopuli lol.

If we already talking, do you mind checking (on whatever browser you're using) if it crashes for you too?

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

Crashes for me, too:

Second failure launching org.mozilla.firefox/org.mozilla.fenix.customtabs.ExternalAppBrowserActivity, giving up
android.os.TransactionTooLargeException: data parcel size 614820 bytes
	at android.os.BinderProxy.transactNative(Native Method)
	at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(BinderProxy.java:571)
	at android.app.IApplicationThread$Stub$Proxy.scheduleTransaction(IApplicationThread.java:2746)
	at android.app.servertransaction.ClientTransaction.schedule(ClientTransaction.java:136)
	at com.android.server.wm.ClientLifecycleManager.scheduleTransaction(ClientLifecycleManager.java:47)
	at com.android.server.wm.ActivityTaskSupervisor.realStartActivityLocked(ActivityTaskSupervisor.java:880)
	at com.android.server.wm.RootWindowContainer.startActivityForAttachedApplicationIfNeeded(RootWindowContainer.java:2000)
	at com.android.server.wm.RootWindowContainer.$r8$lambda$auelgeOhCvbItmS_07q5VFEb1ac(Unknown Source:0)
	at com.android.server.wm.RootWindowContainer$$ExternalSyntheticLambda2.apply(Unknown Source:8)
	at com.android.internal.util.function.pooled.PooledLambdaImpl.doInvoke(PooledLambdaImpl.java:318)
	at com.android.internal.util.function.pooled.PooledLambdaImpl.invoke(PooledLambdaImpl.java:204)
	at com.android.internal.util.function.pooled.OmniFunction.apply(OmniFunction.java:78)
	at com.android.server.wm.ActivityRecord.forAllActivities(ActivityRecord.java:4270)
	at com.android.server.wm.WindowContainer.forAllActivities(WindowContainer.java:1430)
	at com.android.server.wm.WindowContainer.forAllActivities(WindowContainer.java:1423)
	at com.android.server.wm.RootWindowContainer.lambda$attachApplication$15$RootWindowContainer(RootWindowContainer.java:1978)
	at com.android.server.wm.RootWindowContainer$$ExternalSyntheticLambda20.accept(Unknown Source:6)
	at com.android.server.wm.Task.forAllRootTasks(Task.java:3197)
	at com.android.server.wm.WindowContainer.forAllRootTasks(WindowContainer.java:1806)
	at com.android.server.wm.WindowContainer.forAllRootTasks(WindowContainer.java:1806)
	at com.android.server.wm.WindowContainer.forAllRootTasks(WindowContainer.java:1806)
	at com.android.server.wm.WindowContainer.forAllRootTasks(WindowContainer.java:1806)
	at com.android.server.wm.WindowContainer.forAllRootTasks(WindowContainer.java:1806)
	at com.android.server.wm.WindowContainer.forAllRootTasks(WindowContainer.java:1806)
	at com.android.server.wm.WindowContainer.forAllRootTasks(WindowContainer.java:1799)
	at com.android.server.wm.RootWindowContainer.attachApplication(RootWindowContainer.java:1964)
	at com.android.server.wm.ActivityTaskManagerService$LocalService.attachApplication(ActivityTaskManagerService.java:6041)
	at com.android.server.am.ActivityManagerService.attachApplicationLocked(ActivityManagerService.java:4595)
	at com.android.server.am.ActivityManagerService.attachApplication(ActivityManagerService.java:4676)
	at android.app.IActivityManager$Stub.onTransact(IActivityManager.java:2404)
	at com.android.server.am.ActivityManagerService.onTransact(ActivityManagerService.java:2517)
	at android.os.Binder.execTransactInternal(Binder.java:1179)
	at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:1143)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ty!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

While it's likely that sopuli changed something somewhere so that it fails, it's still a Firefox bug btw. There's just no reason it should crash.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would you mind explaining to me why i would want to do this? It's a genuine question.. i'm still learning Lemmy but do run my own instance just for my account.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It makes it so that if you visit another instance using their URL, it will redirect you to your home version’s federated link.

E.g. if your home server is Lemmy.world, let’s say you find a link to Lemmy on another website but it’s a link to Lemmy.ml. If you click the link, you won’t be signed in.

So like:

https://lemmy.ml/c/memes would redirect to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

This way you can seamlessly use Lemmy.

Though I’m not familiar with this particular script. Scripts should be verified for security before installation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not only that, it transform posts link as well, which is awesome!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's great.. thank you... I've got it running but it's not recognising my home instance right now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hello there, and welcome to our community! I hope you like it in here.

Could you please include some body text as to why should people know this, and how would that help them? It’s our second rule. Thank you :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

very nice ty

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there any reason I should use ViolentMonkey vs TamperMonkey?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ViolentMonkey is open source, TamperMonkey is not.

You don't have to, but it'd be a lot cooler if you did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lit, I'll check it out

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

Yeah this is way better lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to do it by manually? Like just change the url to match the instance that you want?

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

is there any other script but for mastodon?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice. I was using another script, but this one seems so much better.

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