Hey 👋,

I got frustrated with the friction for users from direct links to all the different instances they don't have accounts for and built https://lemsha.re/

It's inspired by matrix.to - but built for Lemmy content.

If a user clicks a lemsha.re link the user will be presented with two options:

visit the original link, or

view the same content - but on their preferred instance

Hope you find it useful.

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Hey this is pretty cool. But why not lemmyverse.link? (or threadiverse.link for piefed users)

Edit: I checked it out more, this is very cool. Codeberg, incoming mbin support, shorter link... I think i'll use this now ;) Thank you for sharing, asudox!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Creator wasn't aware https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You missed a great opportunity to use lemshare/lemmyverse here

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you give me a link, I can update the comment

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wasn't entirely serious, but...

If memory serves, you just add lemmyverse.link/ after the https:// bit, so it'd be
https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282

It looks like lemsha.re works similarly:
https://lemsha.re/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282

It's a bit weird that it insists on the link being via https but then includes that in the url...

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

None of these work in Raccoon (Android client).

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same in Summit. I guess there needs to be a standard that everyone follows, because currently I have a client which automatically handles normal other-instance links, and these link helpers actively break it!

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

These services are mainly relevant for PC/browser users. Apps should be able to resolve the original links to open them natively (at least Boost does that). And with Lemmy 1.0 coming up this will be in the codebase of Lemmy itself.

[–] undone@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Can reproduce and just shot the dev of Raccoon an email if we can do anything to fix it on our side. Love when this hopefully is all done within Lemmy natively and redirect services are not needed anymore.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Updated the comment above!

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Maybe because -verse is sort of cringe imo. Also it’s shorter!

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah -verse has been beaten to death xd

I think a more neutral, non lemmy centric name would've been better but i don't think mbin/piefed devs mind too much. its a cool project after all :)

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What about Lembinp.ie

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Wait till i drop fxomtpie, we'll need to fit that into the link!

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

While neat, it isn't very useful without automatic redirects and opengraph support. Both are not optimal to do as a vue app. Doable if nuxt and the nuxt-og-image module is used.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

How awesome thank you!

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Sha're

Indeed.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks, crossposted to !fediverse@piefed.social for wider reach

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there a browser extension to do this automatically?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

!instance_assistant@lemmy.ca, not sure if the project is still updated