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Is there a browser extension that allows me to quickly post any website I like in a Lemmy community? (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would love to be more active in posting links to articles and websites I find interesting to the fediverse, but I find that searching for the appropriate community can be a hassle. With so many different instances hosting the same communities, it can be difficult to know where to post. Is there a Firefox extension that would allow me to quickly and easily post links to a single Lemmy community (for example https://reddthat.com/c/random)? I'm envisioning something like a bookmarking tool that lets me post the website I'm viewing with a single click. If there isn't an existing extension that does this, I'd be interested in finding a similar program that I could use for inspiration to create one myself.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

I find that searching for the appropriate community can be a hassle. With so many different instances hosting the same communities, it can be difficult to know where to post.

lemmy experience intensifies

I said months ago the same thing. I think the power of the fediverse IS NOT the multiple different communities. Rather the ABILITY TO create multiple different communities.

And the example I use is a community for dads. Somebody creates a community for dads and parenting advice on lemmy.world.

And then it gets popular.

So somebody else creates that same community on lemm.ee

But why? Now 40% of the dads are on lemmy.world, 20% are on lemm.ee, and 40% are on both. It would make sense if there were a problem on lemmy.world, but until there IS a problem, stop trying to fix problems that may or may not happen later.

The fediverse take a bit too much pride on the concept of being decentralized. To the point where it doesn't feel like a united set of communities. It just feels fractured.

It's ok to FEEL centralized.....until shit goes down. The you can pull out the decentralized card, start a new community, and pull the rotten tooth. But until it's needed, don't add extra uneeded tooth implants.

......ok, that analogy got away from me a bit, but you guys get my point, right?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Post thoughtfully not quickly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

i hope not. people should invest little but more effort and thought into creating post for other people than they do into creating their personal bookmarks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree. many times I see communities that the only activity is link posting. not even comments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i kinda understand that to be the case somewhere, starting new community is not easy.

i was thinking more about posts where you have some headline, no picture, the post's body is "click here to prove you are not a bot", and the poster didn't care enough to fix that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the "prove you are not a bot" and the preview picture (if any) are often automatically-added. It gets complicated, bc the picture (for example) MAY be added by the posting software and/or the server, and the picture may or may not propagate. Whether or not this happens depends on the version (of posting software and server), how it was configured, and where it is hosted. Sometimes, the preview will not be generated because the content being previewed will disallow this -- for example, youtube previews on [email protected] used to be automatically generated, but I think youtube changed something so that doesn't happen any more. Furthermore, the reading client will sometimes generate preview pictures anyway. CAVEAT: I only partially understand all this.

Summary: preview generation on the fediverse is a complex issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

and when any of what you said happens, you go and manually edit it. that is the effort i am talking about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Same, I am not a fan of a post being only some link. Bring some of your perspective into it, even if its just 2 sentences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sometimes all thats relevant is the link, or the commentary would be more appropriate as a comment. For example, posting a news article to a news community or a set of patchnotes to a game's community. At least personally, thats the majority of what I want to see: a post with a bunch of fairly direct information, and discussion of its implications in the comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know of any, but it sounds like a good idea as a browser extension. I'd write one if my code writing skills weren't terrible.

If you are ever wondering what community to post in, especially deciding between one or another, pick 2 or 3 and post to all of them. People usual don't mind a small amount of duplicate posting, if it repeats like 10 times in their feed they get annoyed though.