This is neat, but it should really be part of Lemmy to be able to link between instances in a way that rewrites the link to your own instance, and makes subscribing easier.

This sounds like a convoluted way.. New Lemmy 0.18 does this automagically with /c/, ! and /u/.

However, not all instances are updating to 0.18, because it removes captcha.

However however, old instances can still work if you make a link like this: [Link text](/c/community@instance) or [Link text](/u/user@instance)

Like this: TWeaK or this: Lemmy

Frankly, I'd say making a link in the comments with /c/ or /u/ is much easier than creating a bookmark with a chunk of javascript. Plus, it creates a link others can use for themselves.

Hey, thank you for this, I had been wanting something along these lines. I have a personal instance, and this will let me import more communities for myself. I just tried it and it works a treat. Takes it a couple of seconds if the community is not yet in my "All" list, but it totally finds it and then I can subscribe or just let it be. Thanks!

Thanks! This works pretty well for now, until a more integrated solution comes along. I made a slight modification, since the original script only works when you're at the community level. This version redirects community URLs as before, but also redirects any non-matching URLs to the search form of your home instance. It seems to work pretty well for posts. ~~Comments and user profiles have some issues- searching comments works as long as the user is commenting on their own instance, and searching profiles works as long as the user is registered with that instance.~~

Edit: It actually does seem to work well for comments; I was using the B/W chain link icon rather than the multicolored fedilink icon. Also, I added another regex to fix profiles, so this should now work with anything that is searchable from your instance.

javascript:((inst = "lemmy.world") => { const l = location; const m = l.href.match(/(?:.*)\/c\/(.*(?=\/)|.*$)/i); if (m) { l.href = `https://${inst}/c/${m[1]}@${l.host.toString()}`; } else if (l.host !== inst) { const m = l.href.match(/(?:.*)\/u\/([^@]*(?=\/)|[^@]*$)/i); if (m) { l.href = `https://${inst}/u/${m[1]}@${l.host.toString()}`; } else { const q = new URLSearchParams(); const m = l.href.match(/(?:.*)\/u\/([^@]+)@(.+(?=\/)|.+$)/i); if (m) { q.append('q', `https://${m[2]}/u/${m[1]}`); } else { q.append('q', l.href); } l.href = `https://${inst}/search?${q.toString()}`; } } })()

Nice! Been thinking of a way it could be built into Lemmy itself, but I haven't come up with anything. Most accessible way I can think of is a browser extension that would do the same thing as your bookmarklet.