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Is there a way to browse the local timeline of another instance? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by god@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm on sh.itjust.works, but I wanna browse local posts on lemmy.world from my own instance without using their url. Is there such a feature?

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[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Alright, thank you. It’s not completely satisfying but it’s what i’ve been doing and it works for now. Sometimes I just wanna see what’s the general PoV from a different instance, and i guess just browsing through those instances will have to do for now.

I dig it, this is a reasonable way to cruise around the fediverse sightseeing the vibe on other instances. FWIW, it wouldn't give you any insight into how I as a lemmy.world user experience things here, as a huge part of my feed is remote communities. But yeah, it's still interesting to see what's getting hosted locally.

To switch, my process is... Do you know a way to do this more easily?

I don't cruise the fediverse much in the way you're describing, my goto tool is subscription. But these two things just scrolled across my feed this morning:

I'm not even going to try to summarize what they do because to be honest I'm not sure I understand myself. They seem to have something to do with instance switching though. I wonder if they would help you, or could be modified to do so. I might just be confused and they might be irrelevant though. At any rate, I provide them for your information without endorsement.

[–] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

thank you, this solves half of it, basically it automates what i said i did, but only from the community url

in basic terms, it does this:

https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld

it splits by /, means it will get this:

[
  "https:",
  "",
  "lemmy.world",
  "c",
  "lemmyworld"
]

it grabs the third one (instance variable) and the 5th one (the community)
it creates a new url: `https://${yourCommunity}/c/${variableCommunity}@${instance}
it redirects the url to the new url.

however, it relies on the url which means that posts will not work. Your comment for example is https://sh.itjust.works/comment/57083, but it's a different number on lemmy.world, which means i have no reliable way to make a bookmarklet to just take the number and make a new url. I'd need some other way to see a unique identifier that is usable across instances.