Not mine, just cross-posting.
you know what I really wish, some easier way to be able to subscribe to a community on a remote instance from your own account. Like a shared login or some browser extension that sees you’re on a lemmy and allows you to subscribe from your account back home
What you’re describing is one of the root issues with the current system. It’s the same reason that if your instance goes down, your account and history go with it. I’d love to see an implementation of some sort of account awareness like you said, which could also make it easier to backup history to another instance in the event that your primary goes down.
Oh this would be nice, a standardized way to back up instances so in the case of one going down forever someone else could pick it up and start running.
I know I’m happy to run my instance, I have a great fiber line and a solid infrastructure, but if I get hit by a bus tomorrow I’d want someone else to pick it up and get running
A one-click account transfer to a different instance would be great. However, there can be several “gotchas”, maybe the target instance has lower “permissions”, so that can lead to data loss. Eg: my instance doesn’t allow pictures more than 100 kb, some other instance doesn’t allow creation of communities. So this needs to be carefully throughout.
Seems the easiest solution to that would be to simply have a comparison view. The permissions are setup using some sort of standardized method, yes? Config file, GUI (which just alters config file), whatever. Certainly it wouldn’t be hard to simply grab and organize a list of perms from both instances and toss em up side by side. Could even add notes (i.e. if photo storage on Instance A > Instance B notify user that “migrating to this instance may cause some larger photos to be removed from your account”).
I’m not a professional programmer (sys admin, so mostly just automation) but there are certainly solutions to this.
oh I was thinking a full instance backup. As an instance admin it’d be nice to backup the whole thing in a standardized way so someone else could grab it and spin it up if I collapsed tomorrow, all the community and users
If the instance is setup as a docker container, then it should be easy. The following should be transferred
- docker-compose file
- zipped up volume directory
At the destination, the docker volume dirs should be unzipped and the new paths should be updated in the docker-compose file. I’m sure someone would have made a script for this by now.
Which is what I’m doing, and I store the backups securely, but then there’s no standardized way of “Hey the admin is gone, can we take over” ability. I could tell my community here are the backups, but then there’s just no standardized way of transferring admin. Idk, I think most things online should have a “Will and testament” type thing. “This passes to XXX”
I’d be interested in something like a lightweight CDN/replication with OAuth2 for logging into other instances. Each instance ‘replicates’ your original account but isn’t itself the master. One can be promoted to master in the event of an outage effectively migrating your account.
Would make for some difficult security considerations given a rogue instance could attempt to hijack authority.
It’s the main reason for mastodon feeling so off. Subbing to a community is something I can deal with, but having a network where you need to follow individuals and the way of doing it is cumbersome sucks. All of these places would benefit greatly if there was a solution.
I’m not much of a programmer and my free time is too limited to move quickly, but the functionality looks possible based on the published frontend API. Someone will almost certainly beat me to it, but I am hoping to write a browser extension that replaces the blue “You are not logged in…” boilerplate text about how to subscribe to a remote community with a subscribe button that does the dirty work in the background for you.
that would be amazing! even just like a hover popup or secondary link to send me to the community but through my instance would help a lot
Thanks, just what I was looking for!
You can do exactly that. Use the search function at the top of Beehaw, specifically type in the URL of the community like this: !ttrpgs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This way you’ll reach that community while still “on” Beehaw and can subscribe to it. From there, you can head to your subscribed communities from your profile to make new posts or whatever.I don’t think you understood what I was suggesting.
Use the search function at the top of Beehaw
I don’t use Beehaw (my instance is lemm.ee), but let’s pretend I do. My whole premise is I don’t always start there. Like if run into a community on Lemmy Explorer or some other site (maybe a google search?), I can easily find myself on a community on a remote server.
For example, can you click here: https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions
What do you see? Any way to subscribe for you? It just tells you to go back home and search for it I would love there to be a browser extension or plugin that automatically recognizes the community’s instance and address and sends it back home to Beehaw for you to subscribe. Can be via API or just redirect you to Beehaw’s view of it
yup, I do the same, I copy/paste the URL in the “search” box, it works, but it is not convenient…
This is great! Feature request… Can you add this functionality to allow people to sub to these communities easy. It’s what I’m doing in a little javascript that has helped me tremendously!
- Set a homeInstance type variable (ie; https://lemmy.ml) - manually inputted or select from found instances?
- Add a button that links to "homeInstance + “/search/q/!” + community + “@” + site + “/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1"”
- site is remoteinstance.whatever
That will take someone straight to being able to sub from their instance.
looks like OP is not one of the devs of this site. You should forward this idea to the github page that is linked there, as it’s a great idea.
This is huge. Now take this data and tag each community with the closest subreddit and use the api to build a thing where you can plug your reddit user and Lemmy user to recreate your reddit account on Lemmy
🤯
To be fair, browse.feddit.de already did this
Is there one that combines Lemmy and kbin communities?
Not that I’ve seen
Would love that. kbin seems to be growing a lot these days.
Not yet but should be possible some time in the future
For some reason, browse.feddit.de only caches our Episodes community, but lemmyverse.net caches our entire instance. 🤔
Well that’s handy to know!
650 servers?? they were just a bunch when I joined a week ago, that’s a crazy growth!
p.s thanks for crossposting, site is very useful
Really well done! Much better to browse than browse.feddit.de I just wish you could “login” and hide the communities you’re already subscribed to :p
That one was missing a bunch of instances and communities for some reason, too. I’m glad we’ve got this new way to look at everything.
Blows my mind that a good chunk of this just didn’t exist a month or two ago
This is great! Anything to make Lemmy adoption simpler and easier for newcomers.
How is the instances list created? I just created my own instance last night and it’s already in that list. Are all federated instances automatically listed?
I think it can be some sort of BFS/DFS method to find all instances.
Yeah, I’d guess the same. I wonder how well that’d scale as the number of instances grows larger and larger…
I personally don’t understand what’s wrong with communities tab, it seems to give a pretty similar list to this when you apply filters looking for the most popular of all communities.
If no one in my instance has subscribed or looked for a community, I won’t be able to find it with the search unless I have its address.
I find this really useful for small instances that don’t have a large communities tab.
This is awesome!
What does the exclamation mark do e.g. in this?
From my understanding, it’s an indicator that differentiates Lemmy links from email addresses.
If you follow the link conventions, !technology@beehaw.org should link to a Lemmy community, rather than open a new email compose window.
Do you know if it is normal that Jerboa crashes when trying to open Lemmy links? I assume on desktop it works correctly, but I haven’t used it as much.
I remember it working properly for me earlier but when I clicked the link in the comment you replied to, jerboa crashed for me too. maybe a regression or just something about this link causing a problem
Whould be nice to have a similar syntax that links that community as reflected in the current user’s current instance.
There is one but you gotta manually apply it atm and it doesnt work on the android app at least. if you link to “/c/community@instance.com” and have it as a hyperlink it will go to that community from your instance. Thats what the person you replied to did, if you check their comments source
Not sure if it is just me or is the problem on my work laptop, but Firefox is giving me a “Potential Security Risk Ahead” warning when trying to access the link.
Firefox isn’t giving me that warning on my desktop, at least. Do you have HTTPS-Only mode on in Firefox security settings, maybe? I used to have that on, but it gave me false security risk errors all the time for some reason (no idea why) for a lot of websites. Especially it’d tell me a site didn’t allow a secure connection/https, but then if I bypassed it and went to the site anyway, sure enough the url would actually show https and the little secure connection lock symbol, so as far as I can tell https is actually working fine.
If you’re on a public network though I suppose interception is also a risk, when you’re logging into things.
Thanks, I’ll check that tomorrow!
This is extremely useful. I wanted to post a story about China but didn’t know where until this post showed up. With this I get an overview over the instances which have China related Communities and they are sorted by users/posts/comments. This is amazing! Thanks for sharing it!
Oh and I checked it and my single user instance is there too :D
Very nice
Wow. As a newcomer trying to make the leap over from Reddit, that’s really nice
