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[Userstyle] Add hearts to users from your homeserver/other designated servers (Frend Detector) v1.6 (pawb.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I made a userscript (eventually converted into a userstyle) so I could go sightseeing across lemmy and spot all you animals out in the wild. pawb.social, pawb.fun, and furry.engineer are pre-filled already, but you can add other servers to track as well!

Edit: Special mention to [email protected] for this post, whose techniques resulted in CSS to achieve parity with my userscript. My older userscript should not be used anymore, as the CSS will do the same thing but more efficiently.

Instructions:

  1. Install Stylus extension for firefox/chrome

  2. "Write new style" in the addon settings

  3. Copy paste the CSS code below in

  4. Modify the code around line ~11 in order to reflect your homeserver and any additional frendservers that you want to highlight. Currently it's set to pawb.social and the mastodon servers that pawb.social also operates, but feel free to add some of the furry instances below as well (post in the comments if you've got a good furry instance to add here!):

  • yiffit.net
  • meow.social

  1. Modify the code around line ~19 to reflect your homeserver

  2. (Optional) If you'd like your homeserver buddies to have a different marker, uncomment the various sections around line ~27 through ~50 by removing the /* and */ bits

  3. (Optional) Play around with different markers and colors!

CSS/Userstyle: https://gist.github.com/redyoshi49q/f1b2d1da0a8f7536aba1f8c3110d2dd8

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Fantastic!!! I didn't even think of this, but this is an excellent idea.

I'm starting work on what I hope to make a browser extension to automatically connect back to your primary instance of choice if you visit another instance. Doing so cause I got tired of having it be that I'd visit an instance (like from the Rust subreddit) and not have it be linked to here so I can follow stuff. I'll have it be a user can set their primary instance, then when they visit another one, they can easily have it connect back properly so they can follow communities and interact there.

(Apologies if that sounded confusing... I'm still not sure on all the verbage for the Fediverse. Hopefully it'll make sense when I release it x3 )

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I love this concept! Another prominent instance that comes to mind is meow.social I'm looking forward to playing with this after work ^_^

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I whipped up a proof-of-concept user CSS that does this (and should automatically adapt to entries shifting down).

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@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("pawb.social") {

a.text-info[title$="@lemmy.blahaj.zone"] span::before {
content: "❤ ";
color: red !important;
}

a.text-info:not([title*="."]) span::before {
content: "★ ";
color: yellow !important;
}

}

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The first part prepends a red heart to usernames from a particular remote server (and variants of the CSS selector can be copy/pasted into a comma delimited list to allow the rule to apply to other servers as well).

The second part prepends a yellow star to usernames from the local server... by crudely assuming that they won't contain any periods (CSS selectors aren't flexible enough for anything more elegant). The selector can instead be applied to the first rule to make those hearts as well.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Edit: Okay, apparently you need to pick a language if you're sending a message from lemmy to mastodon, otherwise you get eternal spinner.

Normal comment as follows:

You're amazing. I had a gut feeling that CSS could solve this but I couldn't find enough info myself. I'm a backend/integration guy and CSS scares me.

This solution is definitely better designed than mine, but I'm not sure if it can handle highlighting when you're on a foreign server instance (e.g. literally on beehaw.org and not pawb.social). This isn't a huge deal imo but I posted the script somewhere and someone immediately wanted that feature so I put it into mine. I did solve the shifting around issue - it wasn't that hard to solve I just wasn't expecting lemmy to reuse elements in such a weird way. When a post comes into the feed, all the elements change their values directly - nothing "moves" around in the DOM (at least that's what I observed during 10 seconds of testing).

With your current CSS, there's an issue where the star inserts itself on upvote counts for me after I've upvoted a post:

This should be fixable by using something like this (pls fix if I'm doing it wrong):

a.text-info[title$="@lemmy.blahaj.zone"] span::before {
content: "❤ ";
color: red !important;
}

a.text-info:not([title*="."])[href*="/u/"] span::before {
content: "★ ";
color: yellow !important;
}
[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I can confirm both that my original version has the bug you described and that your fix does not produce that bug.

I don't actually have a native Lemmy account, so I didn't realize that upvoting would cause the upvote count to gain a CSS class that I used in my selector.

(Thankfully, the DOM changed to reflect given/taken upvotes in spite of me not being logged into the Lemmy server at all; I only got a "Not logged in." error each time.)

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

(Also, you would not believe how often I've had to write user CSS to unbreak the broken CSS of websites.

A classic example is when the CSS defines dark text color without defining a background color. The browser I use derives color defaults from the OS, which uses light text on a dark background, and the page renders in dark text on a dark background, generally becoming nearly unreadable.

I've also (ab)used "display: none !important;" to snip out annoying "improvements" to pages.)

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I've ended up with a style like this:

a.text-info[href*="/u/"][href$="@pawb.social"] span::before,
a.text-info[href*="/u/"][href$="@pawb.fun"] span::before,
a.text-info[href*="/u/"][href$="@furry.engineer"] span::before {
content: "❤ ";
color: red !important;
}

a.text-info[href*="/u/"]:not([href*="@"]) span::before {
content: "★ ";
color: yellow !important;
}

Frustratingly, I can't seem to check whether pawb.social is in the href of a relative href like /u/yote_zip. If I could do that, this could work on foreign instances, because I could add a qualifier that someone is not only a member of the instance I'm currently on, but also my specific homeserver. As-is, this can be limited to pawb.social and will work just fine.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Try this:

@-moz-document domain("pawb.social"), domain("yiffit.net") {
a.text-info[href*="/u/"][href$="@pawb.fun"] span::before,
a.text-info[href*="/u/"][href$="@furry.engineer"] span::before {
content: "❤ ";
color: red;
}
a.text-info[href*="/u/"]:not([href*="@"]) span::before {
content: "★ ";
color: yellow;
}
}

@-moz-document domain("pawb.social") {
a.text-info[href*="/u/"]:not([href*="@"]) span::before {
content: "❤ " !important;
color: red !important;
}

}

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

There's three lists of domains at play here:

* The domains in the first @-moz-document are domains where hearts and stars appear at all.
* The domains in that section's a.text-info block are the domains that get hearts.
* The domains in the second @-moz-document are the domains where the stars are overridden by hearts.

This lets you always have hearts on an instance, even if you're already on that instance, while also letting you have stars show native accounts elsewhere.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm unsure if this is what you mean exactly, but I was able to use your techniques to get parity with my script's logic (star removed for simplicity at the moment):

a.text-info[href*="/u/"][href$="@pawb.social"] span::before,
a.text-info[href*="/u/"][href$="@pawb.fun"] span::before,
a.text-info[href*="/u/"][href$="@furry.engineer"] span::before {
    content: "❤ ";
    color: red;
}
@-moz-document domain("pawb.social") {
    a.text-info[href*="/u/"]:not([href*="@"]) span::before {
        content: "❤ " !important;
        color: red !important;
    }
}

This CSS is logically equivalent to what I was doing in my script:

So it works on all sites and highlights users from the first 3 sites (first is a user's homeserver). On pawb.social specifically, it detects native users and adds a heart to them. In practice, this means everyone from those 3 servers should always have a heart next to them no matter where you go in the lemmyverse.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

It took me a bit to realize as much, but it seems that you edited the script based on another commenter's suggestion to make parts of it run on /every/ page (with the expectation of only changing anything on Lemmy pages). That's... probably fine; the CSS is pretty specific.

https://gist.github.com/redyoshi49q/f1b2d1da0a8f7536aba1f8c3110d2dd8 <- I made an update that cleans up a few things and re-adds the functionality that I originally intended for the stars to have (using houses instead) with commented out CSS.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

You're welcome to version bump this and add yourself as an author, by the way; you participated quite a bit in this process.

(The character limit of Mastodon has been a little bit cozy for this extended exchange, hence why I finally decided to just make and link a gist.)

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Sure. just add me as an author on that gist and I'll put it in the post instead. Posting raw code on lemmy is not ideal, especially because I can't seem to color it based on the language.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Done.

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