Feature: Alternate Source Selector
Implementation Difficulty: Easy
Live Example: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/c/news@lemmy.world (The “link” icon to the left of the post’s URL.)
Rationale: I’m quite annoyed with people whining “pAyWallED!” in news post comments, and this is Tesseract’s way of addressing that (for users of that UI, anyway)
Description:
On posts with links (that aren’t images, audio, video, Youtube, or other media), a dropdown menu is added with links to alternate sources.
Each one will search for the URL in the selected archive provider (currently Ghost Archive, Archive Today, 12ft.io) or Ground News (new in 1.4.5).
Lemmy-UI kind of does this, but completely ass-backwards (only during post creation to set the post link; I’ll spare you my spiel about how that’s a horrible vector for misinformation).
On Youtube-like posts (YT, Invidious, or Piped), the options are changed to go to the canonical YT link, your preferred Invidious instance, or your preferred Piped instance, but that’s just a secondary (but still nice) feature of that component.
Would love to see something like this more widely adopted and am more than happy to answer any implementation questions.
Wow, this is great! Thanks!
Yeah, it’s been pretty useful.
This is also why I love open source. In corporate, it would be all “patent that so no one can do anything remotely similar” and with FOSS, I’m like “here is a cool thing you might like; please take”.
Also, I may have a “Part II” of this post for the remote instance browsing feature. Every time I’ve shown that to someone, they look at me like it’s witchcraft. Would love to see that more widely adopted as well.
whats the remote instance browsing feature?
Can list the communities of any remote Lemmy instance and one-click subscribe to them.
This is a great idea! @aeharding@vger.social could voyager add this?
Definitely for the PWA and f-droid builds, but idk how happy Google and Apple would be to have an app doing this in their stores. IANAL
TIL Voyager PWA https://vger.app/
Thanks for such an enjoyable App!
That’s actually a great idea! I guess I have no choice but to steal it, so here’s the issue for Interstellar.
I added an issue for Mlem support. 🤞
Can you also add a ticket for them to support spoilers?
It’s on their low-priority list.
Lemmy has apps available? I’ve been using a browser this whole time. I used the stock reddit app for years too. I’m such a dunce. Can someone point me toward a decent app?
I use Jerboa myself (was on RiF before), though I’ve also heard good things about Voyager.
I use both, myself. Jerboa is my NSFW Lemmy login and Voyager is my daily driver for Lemmy. I think both are really awesome, but Voyager’s “hide read posts” saves my sanity!
Can filter by platform and feature :)
The Boost for Lemmy app is pretty good.
https://lemmy.world/comment/11514952
It seems to fail at spoilers, superscript, and subscript.
I barely know what lemmy is, something something fediverse. I use the sync app, moved over from sync for Reddit.
Sync fails at tables, subscript, and block quote separation.
My favorites are sync and thunder, but I recommend thunder since it’s FOSS, i’m just waiting for hold to peek.
https://lemmy.ca/post/26097116?scrollToComments=true
There are 3 apps that pass the “Does this actually display posts correctly?” test:
- Jerboa
- Alexandrite
- Voyager
Everything else should be considered in a testing phase. Don’t pay for an app that can’t do spoilers correctly.
Edit: Don’t pay for an app that doesn’t format text correctly in general, but not doing spoilers correctly is probably the most jarring.
Voyager for iOS. Not sure about the robot os.
Voyager is on robot os as well.
I just installed the default app that it prompted me with. I wonder if other apps can have meaningful more features?
Great one!
Thank you, this is desperately needed to clean up extra link previews and help lessen bot posts.
Sweet, that’s a great feature!
Like the concept very much, but also please just stop linking to paywalled articles folks. I’ve stopped whining but it’s a downvote at least every time.
Thank you, kind internet stranger
Could just submit a pull request instead of asking for a feature
Possibly, depending on the app and developer.
Impressive!
What do you imagine might happen if reddit added this feature tomorrow?
Mainly thinking in terms of potential reactions by news agencies & content hosts, or impact on journalism.