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?

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    I don’t think exactly what you want exists, and I would be surprised if it landed soon. Under the hood, this would require subscribing to all the communities on lemmy.world but then not showing them in your subscribed feed and instead providing some kind of “remote local” or similarly confusing view from sh.itjust.works, which is likely to be pretty hard for folks who already struggle with the mechanics of federation to understand.

    Two things you CAN do are:

    • Subscribe to the communities that you’re interested in on lemmy.world. Just because the communities are homed here doesn’t mean you can’t subscribe to them. At which point they’ll show up in your subscribed list as posts in a remote community.
    • Visit https://lemmy.world/. You won’t be logged in, and can’t comment/vote… but you can browse the full local feed from there. I realize you said this is what you don’t want to do, but I reiterate it because it’s on the short list of things that are closest to what you want to do.

    Of these, I’d employ the first. Just sub to whatever communities you find interesting, it doesn’t have to be all of them. And if you want to find new communities that are active, visit the anonymous local feed just to see what communities are hopping that you’re not already a part of. Then sub them to interact from your instance.

    • 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.