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Hey πŸ‘‹,

I got frustrated with the friction for users from direct links to all the different instances they don't have accounts for and built https://lemsha.re/

It's inspired by matrix.to - but built for Lemmy content.

If a user clicks a lemsha.re link the user will be presented with two options:

  • visit the original link, or
  • view the same content - but on their preferred instance

Hope you find it useful.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that the form insists on the link being via https (that's a Lemmy requirement, right?) but then includes https:// in the output url. Why not have links be https://lemsha.re/lemm.ee/post/59380380? atm that just gives a console error, but you could just set https when parsing.

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

I like that. Will pick it up for the next update.

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

Sounds good. Remember to still support the old httpsy style!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

URLs are now prettier - while being fully backwards compatible to the initial path structure.


Edit: Also handling invalid URLs more gracefully now

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thanks for creating it! But I'm confused about what is the difference from https://lemmyverse.link/ ? Additionaly are there plans for adding Mbin support? (It uses m/ instead of c/ and has distinct API)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Added Photon UI support today.

Also looked into implementing Mbin support. It's quite straight forward what needs to be done. Can't promise anything soon though.

Do you mind submitting an issue to the repo? https://codeberg.org/lemshare/lemshare

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

+1 for using Codeberg 🫑

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Nice! Sure, I have a Codeberg account so why not

You could also take inspiration from how Lemmyverse.link does it, because it supports Mbin - https://github.com/RikudouSage/lemmyverse.link

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hah. Did not know about lemmyverse.link

I like that they pre-fetch the link metadata. Other than that and the delay option I don't see much difference.

No immediate plans for Mbin support. My plan is to publish the code and make it FOSS, though. Should be quite easy to extend (and self-host if you like).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hah. Did not know about lemmyverse.link

I guess we should promote it more

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

The developers of Mlem were also unaware of the tool until I brought it up with them then they raced to implement it haha

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly not sure how the info about its existence would have reached me. Other than being part of every lemmy instance sign up form maybe. Or might have stumbled upon a mention on the https://join-lemmy.org/ home page. Endorsement there would be awesome.

There are browser extensions that offer similar functionality on a personal level - but even those I only tried after.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It is used from time to time, in a few communities sidebars for instance.

The thing is that most of the time people are just going to use another instance link without going through a third party tool to make it instance agnostic