Hi all,

I’d hereby like to announce lmmy.to, an instance-aware redirector for Lemmy that allows you to directly link people to Lemmy communities on their own instance.

As an example, try https://lmmy.to/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml.

I’ve created !lmmy_to@derp.foo to discuss it. There’s also a FAQ.

Edit: I’ve resolved the 500 error people were getting.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the effort, but, unless I’m missing something, this is unnecessary because you can simply make a relative link like [this](/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml) (this) and get the same effect. Also, as of 0.18.0, a string like /c/lemmy@lemmy.ml automatically becomes a relative link, like this: /c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

    However, these relative links unfortunately don’t work on non-lemmy activitypub sites like mastodon and kbin.

    imo, despite this, for now an easy improvement that should be made is that lemmy’s autocomplete functionality (when typing !communityname...) should be changed to generate relative links.

    I haven’t followed the discussion closely but there are multiple github issues about this problem. One is here and from it you can find some others.