I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed to keep this sub going?
[email protected]. Try to use the bang syntax when linking communities rather than direct linking it like that, so that others can click it and access it from their own instance.
Also, on the user side of that, for when someone doesn’t use said syntax, note that there’s a Firefox, Chrome, and Edge extension, “Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin”, where one can set one’s home instance. It’ll add a button in the sidebar in threads on remote instances where one can just click on “view in my home instance”.
[email protected]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/mbblbalkjcikhpladidpimlfiapdffdh
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/hnlndgeokcaocdklkbfjbfjplfnedehb
https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant
Finally got around to trying that extension out. And wow was it significantly less useful than I was expecting.
I was first offput by its settings page. “Home instance” is clear enough, but then it also needs a list of instances to “change display”. No idea what that’s supposed to do.
But the real problem is that it doesn’t actually do anything useful. Yeah if I’m on lemmy.world/c/[email protected], I can click it and be taken to aussie.zone/c/[email protected], but I can do that really easily manually. The actual useful convenient thing would be if I were at https://lemmy.world/post/14353571 and clicking the button took me to https://aussie.zone/post/8919002
But instead, clicking the button displays this popup: