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.

  • AzzuEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • irdc@derp.fooOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • AzzuEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.