Hi everyone, I was trying to create a link sharer that works across Lemmy instances. The idea was to convert the federated url to a local url by using the api. You would save your instance of preference with the website, and it auto directs after a few seconds. However, I ran into one major problem. Both the search and resolveObject endpoints require authentication to do what I needed it to do.

An alternative would be to redirect to the search page, but that wouldn’t be much more convenient than just doing it yourself.

Does anyone have other ideas for tools (or etc) that could benefit us Lemmy users?

I already got a domain for this project, lemmy.express, but in the worse case someone could use it to run an instance on it.

  • MermitianOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    (Sorry for replying to your root comment, your reply isn’t showing on my instance)

    Ideally what I’d love is if posts worked like communities. For example you can navigate to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] and you’ll be taken to the community page on Lemmy.world. But if we could link to something like https://lemmy.world/p/[email protected] and land on a particular post, that would make having to do a lookup completely pointless.

    There is some good and some bad news for this. They are aware of this problem, and are having discussions to change it. But I don’t know when it is coming. And I agree that a lookup would be useless if we can simply create the url directly.