i find it annoying to have to manually change urls to subscribe to a community outside lemmy.world, so i wrote a bookmarklet to quickly switch to the lemmy.world instance
to use, just drag the following code to your bookmarks bar (name it whatever you like), then click it when you want to use it
javascript:(function() {const myInst="lemmy.world";let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");let currInst=currUrl[2];currUrl[2]=myInst;let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;window.location=newUrl;})();
readable version:
javascript:(
function() {
// make sure to change this if using on a different instance
const myInst="lemmy.world";
let currUrl=window.location.toString().split("/");
let currInst=currUrl[2];
currUrl[2]=myInst;
let newUrl=currUrl.join("/")+"@"+currInst;
window.location=newUrl;
})
()
Staying on your home instance is currently an issue on the repo. Implementing it yourself would need using the search, which is complicated because it only works through a websocket connection.
i’m glad that’s being tracked, as a bookmarklet is not really a great solution; but it’s still not a complete solution. if i visit a lemmy post from outside lemmy.world (e.g. search engine), then there’s no way to go to the l.w version (to my knowledge)