Is there an easy way to open a Lemmy link from another instance?
I have an account on one server, but often browser from 9 other servers. Sometimes, I find a community I would like to follow. Is there an easy way to open that community from a different instance/server? I find searching for that community on my main server works, but is clumsy.


Do you literally open 9 tabs for each instances? If that’s the case, that’s kinda weird. You don’t have to. That’s the whole point of Lemmy.
Link for a community in lemmy should be something like this:
[Link Text](/c/communityName@instance.host). If you click that in whatever instance you’re in, you should be able to access the community in that instance.However, quite a lot of people just don’t care and copy/paste link for the community which is (understandable, but,) quite irritating. So after I read this post I just wrote this hacky Tampermonkey script to fix those links.
// ==UserScript== // @name Fix community link // @version 0.1 // @match https://[YOUR INSTANCE HERE]/post/* // @run-at document-end // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict'; const postLinks = document.getElementById("postContent").querySelectorAll("a:not(.community-link)"); const comments = document.getElementsByClassName("comment-content"); for (let aTag of postLinks) { const isCommunityLink = aTag.pathname.startsWith("/c/"); aTag.href = isCommunityLink?aTag.pathname + "@" + aTag.host:aTag.href; }; for (let comment of comments) { let commentLinks = comment.querySelectorAll("a:not(.community-link)"); for (let aTag of commentLinks) { const isCommunityLink = aTag.pathname.startsWith("/c/"); aTag.href = isCommunityLink?aTag.pathname + "@" + aTag.host:aTag.href; }; }; })();It’s very far from being pretty (I especially hate how
isCommunityLinkworks) so let me know if there’s a better way I can do this!