- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
Feature: Alternate Source Selector
Implementation Difficulty: Easy
Live Example: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/c/[email protected] (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.
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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.
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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.
This is a great idea! @[email protected] could voyager add this?
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?
My favorites are sync and thunder, but I recommend thunder since it’s FOSS, i’m just waiting for hold to peek.
Artic On iOS has been really enjoyable for me. Voyager is a close second. My biggest pet peeve with voyager is not hiding the bars on scroll. Otherwise I would use it.
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.
