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FediRedirect is a browser extension that redirects you to your favorite instance.

It currently supports:

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[–] concrete_baby 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Missed the opportunity to name it Fedirect

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It's analogous to the name LibRedirect so.

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

Fedirect

This is what I hope happens to Twitter & Meta.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might be ignorant but what is the use or benefit of this? I am fairly new to the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Typically, when you click on a link to a post on Lemmy or Mastodon (or any other Fediverse application), it goes to the instance that was linked. For example, I'm reading this on lemmy.world. If I were to link you to this post, it would load on Lemmy.world's site. Since you're reading the post on Lemmy.world instead of your account's instance (lemm.ee in this case), you can't interact with the post since you're not logged into Lemmy.world. This add-on would redirect you from Lemmy.world to the same post on lemm.ee.

(TL;DR) Adding this add-on would redirect you from Lemmy.world (remote instance) to the same post on Lemm.ee (your account's instance), which would allow you to interact with the post without having to find it on your account's instance manually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have a GitHub repo for this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any plans for Mastodon + Lemmy => Kbin?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes, also pleroma and misskey.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any plans to make it compatible with Firefox for Mobile?

It's definitely going on my desktop but I'd also love to use it on my phone

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

It can now work on Firefox Mobile, but Firefox doesn't allow installing any extension for security reasons (idk if for compatibility reasons too), you can only install "recommended extensions". There's a way to install it on Firefox Nightly, but that's too advanced.

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

It does the same thing, recommending Firefox Beta or Nightly. For Tampermonkey, FediRedirect is a full browser extension not a script.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Looks very cool and useful! I'll have to give it a try

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

What's the reasoning behind needing username/password? I'm a bit nervous handing that out.

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

(Username and Password) or (jwt) are required for resolving /post and /comment. If Username and Password didn't work, go to your instance's cookies and copy your jwt.

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

What code do I have to paste in the Mastodon settings?

Edit: Nvm, I just had to click save and authorize to get the code.

Edit 2: I thought this would redirect automatically

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

When looking up into an instance's database (find a post id), it will NOT allow you without credentials, same thing for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks very promising so far!!

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

I personally find it mildly amusing that picture 1 includes a post of Lemmyverse's largest Instance announcing it was hacked. (I know it's true and it's a good thing that the announcement happened. But still...)


Anyways, with that out of the way. It could be an interesting browser flow, hope people like it!

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

Awesome! Seems to work for me! Thanks for making this!

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