Hi all,

I’d hereby like to announce lmmy.to, an instance-aware redirector for Lemmy that allows you to directly link people to Lemmy communities on their own instance.

As an example, try https://lmmy.to/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml.

I’ve created !lmmy_to@derp.foo to discuss it. There’s also a FAQ.

Edit: I’ve resolved the 500 error people were getting.

  • trachemys@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    It would be nice if the welcome page would tell you what community it will be redirecting you too. Right now it looks like something hijacked my browser; I don’t really trust it.

    Also, I got error 500 after entering my hostname.

    And it might take some effort. But if you had a searchable select box populated with a master list of instances, that might be pretty cool.

    In the end, training everyone to make lmmy.to urls when they reference a community may be too difficult. This needs to be a builtin feature of the lemmi web ui somehow.

    • irdc@derp.fooOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, it needs some styling. Which is not my thing really. Anyone want to help?

      I got error 500 after entering my hostname.

      Huh, now it’s doing the same for me too. Yet it worked when I tried it before.

      Edit: fixed now. I seem to have accidentally re-introduced a bug somewhere in the process of launching the site.