• Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    1 year ago

    There’s a bunch of browser extensions as well to add a “show on my instance” link whenever it detects a Lemmy instance page which basically does the same thing automatically for you, pretty useful.

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      1 year ago

      Was about to ask if there was a way to do this automatically. Does anyone know why this isn’t baked into the Lemmy codebase? I’m thinking this would be pretty easy with browser cookies. 🤔

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        It would have to go through some sort of Lemmy link redirector service because a site can’t access another site’s cookies. And even then, with third-party cookie sandboxing, that still wouldn’t work.

        I don’t think this is solvable without a browser extension. The best the devs could do is let you enter your home instance URL on each instance such that eventually you’ve configured them all and it works. But the extensions are just plain better.

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        I’ve been using a GreaseMonkey script to do that, I can’t find the exact one I used but there’s a bunch that do posts too, and extensions.