I’m on sh.itjust.works, but I wanna browse local posts on lemmy.world from my own instance without using their url. Is there such a feature?

  • GodOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Alright, thank you. It’s not completely satisfying but it’s what i’ve been doing and it works for now. Sometimes I just wanna see what’s the general PoV from a different instance, and i guess just browsing through those instances will have to do for now.

    My main issue with this is that I can’t just switch easily to comment on a post from a remote url using my local instance. Say I’m reading this, it just says sh.itjust.works/post/38224, but if i browse from lemmy.world, it’s lemmy.world/post/55592. There’s no button I can tap to be like “see this but from another instance” because the link is numeric and different.

    To switch, my process is I go to sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] (typed manually), browse by new and find the relevant post and comment on it. As you can see it’s very much a difficult mess to handle.

    Do you know a way to do this more easily?

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Alright, thank you. It’s not completely satisfying but it’s what i’ve been doing and it works for now. Sometimes I just wanna see what’s the general PoV from a different instance, and i guess just browsing through those instances will have to do for now.

      I dig it, this is a reasonable way to cruise around the fediverse sightseeing the vibe on other instances. FWIW, it wouldn’t give you any insight into how I as a lemmy.world user experience things here, as a huge part of my feed is remote communities. But yeah, it’s still interesting to see what’s getting hosted locally.

      To switch, my process is… Do you know a way to do this more easily?

      I don’t cruise the fediverse much in the way you’re describing, my goto tool is subscription. But these two things just scrolled across my feed this morning:

      I’m not even going to try to summarize what they do because to be honest I’m not sure I understand myself. They seem to have something to do with instance switching though. I wonder if they would help you, or could be modified to do so. I might just be confused and they might be irrelevant though. At any rate, I provide them for your information without endorsement.

      • GodOPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        thank you, this solves half of it, basically it automates what i said i did, but only from the community url

        in basic terms, it does this:

        https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld

        1. it splits by /, means it will get this:
        [
  "https:",
  "",
  "lemmy.world",
  "c",
  "lemmyworld"
]
        1. it grabs the third one (instance variable) and the 5th one (the community)
        2. it creates a new url: https://${yourCommunity}/c/${variableCommunity}@${instance}
        3. it redirects the url to the new url.

        however, it relies on the url which means that posts will not work. Your comment for example is https://sh.itjust.works/comment/57083, but it’s a different number on lemmy.world, which means i have no reliable way to make a bookmarklet to just take the number and make a new url. I’d need some other way to see a unique identifier that is usable across instances.