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Announcing FediRedirect! (addons.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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FediRedirect is a browser extension that redirects you to your favorite instance.

It currently supports:

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/587204

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is the intended use case?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • Say a friend sent you a lemmy.world link, you want to reply to it but you only have a programming.dev account, so you redirect the link to programming.dev that has your account.
  • Say a friend sent you a lemmy link, but you only have an account in kbin, so you redirect to kbin (kbin is not implemented yet).
  • You want to see a post in your own instance's UI and Theme.
  • You want to use Pleroma's UI not Mastodon's UI and vise versa.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty new to this, but isnt the power of the fediverse that you can use whatever you like and connect to other instances?

If i want to see mastodon content in pleroma, you can subscribe to the users from Pleroma?

Like i use KBin to view this, because of the ability to view both Lemmy and Mastodon content. But Ive seen people link to pixelfed users and that works too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All you said is true if you are browsing through your instance, but if you were browsing another instance's website and saw a post or if someone sent you a link to a post in an instance you don't use, then you should figure out a way to see that post through your instance. In Mastodon, you go to search and paste the post link. In Lemmy, you do something similar. Those can be done but are quite tedious. This problem is what FediRedirect aims to make solving it more convenient.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for he explanation, should be handy for those who need it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

kbin to lemmy is not implemented yet, right? trying to get this over at lemmy.world but nothing is happening. Also I do not understand the user/pass/jwt. If I just want to open say posts on my instance, is it required that I add it?

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

For user/password/jwt, it's needed to find the post id and the comment id in your instance's database. No instance will offer you free post/comment id search unless you happen to be a user.

Yes kbin is still not supported, I actually tried implementing it today but it doesn't have a proper sesrch API like lemmy (finding a federated post id in my local instance's databse). Kbin is still in beta so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You click a link to some fediverse content somewhere, and actually land on the instance where you have a login and can interact with it.