i find it annoying to have to manually change urls to subscribe to a community outside lemmy.world, so i wrote a bookmarklet to quickly switch to the lemmy.world instance

to use, just drag the following code to your bookmarks bar (name it whatever you like), then click it when you want to use it

javascript:(function() {const myInst="lemmy.world";let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");let currInst=currUrl[2];currUrl[2]=myInst;let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;window.location=newUrl;})();

readable version:

javascript:(
	function() {
		// make sure to change this if using on a different instance
		const myInst="lemmy.world";
		let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");
		let currInst=currUrl[2];
		currUrl[2]=myInst;
		let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;
		window.location=newUrl;
	})
()
  • GrenfurEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Do you know if the process works differently in FireFox? (Note that technically I use Ghostery but it’s based in Firefox). I copied the script to a new bookmark URL and changed lemmy.world to lemmy.one since thats the instance I’m registered on. However, when clicked nothing happens. Is there something I’m missing?

    • Ɀeus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      i can tell you that i made and currently use it with firefox…

      sanity check, when you select edit bookmark it should look like this

      however, i don’t know about ghostery (i didn’t even know they made a browser). it’s possible they block arbitrary js for security reasons? it would be a dumb choice in my opinion, but i guess it’s protecting you from yourself?

      however i can tell you a couple of things. this doesn’t work with some communities (they just 404), but that happens if one puts the url in manually. i don’t know when or why this happens, but it does seem to happen a lot with lemmy.one. i wonder if it’s a l.1 federation issue

      • GrenfurEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Interesting. ok I’ll dig further into it being Ghostery related then.

        For your sanity, yes, looks relatively the same on me end when I edit bookmark.