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.

    • Ye be warned 🏴‍☠️@lemm.eeOP
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      16 天前

      Honestly not sure how the info about its existence would have reached me. Other than being part of every lemmy instance sign up form maybe. Or might have stumbled upon a mention on the https://join-lemmy.org/ home page. Endorsement there would be awesome.

      There are browser extensions that offer similar functionality on a personal level - but even those I only tried after.

      • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        16 天前

        It is used from time to time, in a few communities sidebars for instance.

        The thing is that most of the time people are just going to use another instance link without going through a third party tool to make it instance agnostic

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca
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      The developers of Mlem were also unaware of the tool until I brought it up with them then they raced to implement it haha