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.
My userscript (Lemmy post) can also help you with this globally on all websites :) It rewrites all links everywhere to always point to your home instance.
Nice. Would you be willing to make it always rewrite links to lmmy.to as well?
I don’t think it makes sense to rewrite two times, why point to a link redirector if you can already point to the place the link redirector would redirect you to? What if your service is down but the actual redirect target is not?
Sorry, my reply probably wasn’t entirely clear. I meant the other way around: rewrite links to lmmy.to to go to the user’s instance.
Right :D I currently pull the list of Lemmy instances I rewrite automatically from somewhere. I could probably add lmmy.to as a special thing because it’s not really a Lemmy instance. I’ll look into it.