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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Noob here! Why would you want to? This Is the first federated service I've used!
You're currently on lemdit.com and view the whole Lemmy fediverse from there. But I'm on lemm.ee. So let's say I want to share you a cool thing I made, so I link you to a post I have saved on my end: https://lemm.ee/post/530506
This link (https://lemm.ee/post/530506) is actually the link to this post right here, but viewed by me from my instance. If you click on it without this extension, you will leave lemdit.com and go to lemm.ee, and thus not be logged in anymore and also you can't comment/save/anything that needs login anymore.
So that's where this script comes in. I post you the link https://lemm.ee/post/530506, and my script automatically changes that to https://lemdit.com/post/23135.
So now even though we were on separate instances and I posted you a link to my instance, you can view it from your instance and immediately comment/save it/etc.
This should be added to Lemmy itself, and it probably will eventually. But! What if you find a Lemmy link on DuckDuckGo/Google? Then you need something like a user script or browser addon, because Lemmy obviously can't add code to DuckDuckGo/Google pages.
Ah right! I didn't realise that switching instances would invalidate your Auth! This sounds very useful. I'm with you that the platform should probably just handle this!