I was chatting with a friend, and she mentioned how she tries to at least set up a README, which includes her vision for the project and her plan for the implementation, design, and goals.

Best case scenario is that the planning helps her complete the project herself. Worst case scenario, someone else can pick up where she left off and use her considerations for the project.

I’m thinking of doing that for future projects too

I think the issue here is

they don’t show up under “posts” on your own profile

It makes sense to hide read posts on the main feed, but not when you’re looking at a particular user?

That’s a problem everywhere, but I’ve found that people are a lot better on here about downvotes?

On Reddit I’d see comments and questions with no replies and only downvotes. Here you’re a lot more likely to see responses

For smaller extensions, you can start by looking at the manifest.json as this file is the entry point. You can see which part of the code needs access to ‘everything’ and go from there.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json

For example, with Instance Assistant for Lemmy, you need to give access to all sites because it needs to run on any Lemmy site and that’s not something you can hardcode in.

You could try from this

https://lemmy.world/post/1289432

Ideally try for a smaller size, else it takes time to load and wastes people’s data

We actually have an extension for this, it’s one of the more popular extensions for Lemmy&Kbin, going by the counts on chrome/firefox stores:

!instance_assistant@lemmy.ca

It was originally made to solve this problem, but we’ve been adding other features as well. Right now you can redirect communities and posts, and redirect links by right clicking on them.

Let me know if it works, and also where it doesn’t so that we can improve it :)

I personally find a lack of downvotes to be annoying and harmful. People don’t go through the trouble of reporting problem content, and it usually leads to poor quality inflammatory content rising to the top.

If you’re new and haven’t really set up yet, explore other instances. You can find one that aligns with what you want out of Lemmy without jumping through hoops.

If you have set up, there are account migration tools for you. They just aren’t perfect yet

Hope it helps!

Hope it helps :)

Sorry to those that have already seen this. I’m trying to space out the posts so it’s not in a large clump in your feeds. People have different subscription lists, so I’m trying to reach those that haven’t seen it yet.

These are the last 4 posts :)

A few days late, but this is actually something I’ve been working on for Instance Assistant! I implemented a first attempt and released it this weekend. Let me know if it works for you :)

It should pop up in the sidebar of any post on a foreign instance. If it doesn’t load, you may need to refresh the page. That’s something I’m still working on because redirecting on a Lemmy site isn’t always detected as navigating to a new page.

Thank you, hope it helps!

From what I’ve experienced with my extension, every update has to go through a review process. Firefox is pretty fast, chrome takes a few days and edge takes a while (opera hasn’t finished reviewing my first version, so I stopped trying with them).

The only time I failed a review was early on when my build script choked and I submitted an empty file to Chrome (whoops). So I can’t really tell how good those reviews are, but I’m not planning on testing them. I just know that they exist

Relevant bit from the post, we will now also be prepping for the Firefox Mobile app, now that they are opening mobile up to all extensions!

This may need some reworking to make it easier to use on mobile. If you have any thoughts, or would like to participate in the preview/dev releases, let me know here or elsewhere :)

have control of your local network

traffic of a particular kind

Could you give an example of what this looks like? I’m sure I’ll have friends sending me similar articles / YouTube videos. Would be nice to have a simple and accurate analogy

This is something that is probably better if implemented in Lemmy itself. It would be tied to a particular community, and it wouldn’t need to cross over between instances.

If someone tried to make a browser extension for it, it would only appear for people using the same browser extension. Some third party apps have it like that, and it’s not that helpful.

What’s better for a browser extension / app to take on is cross-instance functionality, such as jumping between instances, having buttons / content in the UI, etc. I’m working on an extension for that ( !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca ), and while I really want flairs as well, I don’t think it would be good for a browser extension.

Once it’s implemented in Lemmy itself, then we could probably make it easier to add/remove/view/filter flairs using a browser extension.

I’ve been using Nova Launcher for years now, but I explored other options a few months ago because of the ownership change. Lawnchair was the best one I found, but I didn’t switch to it because it looked like it was missing features I needed. Folders was an important one.

Which version / source are you using for the app? I got a bit lost trying to find a recent version. The last release on the GitHub is from 2018, and the last prerelease is from a year ago. There’s also an issue for the folders which I was following, and it actually just went stale: https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/issues/2471

I also see Lawnchair2, but that looked like a fork or something

This is something we have a workaround on an extension I’m working on. You can right-click on a link and have it open in your home instance

https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant

Hi there, sorry I responded to a lot of people but missed this one somehow.

It let me use completely different parts of reddit to express and explore different interests I think one of the things that made reddit the best social media platform was how pseudonymous it was. Total opposite of facebook “real name policy” attitude.

I did the exact same thing, and I’ve been trying to emulate this the best I can on Lemmy. The closest I’ve gotten is by using Firefox containers on the web, which lets me be signed in to multiple accounts. On mobile, there are a few apps that have multi-account support (I’m using Connect), but I haven’t seen one where I can choose which account to comment with.

As for the extension, I added the ability to customize the instance list, which should help with quick switching! It should be in the next update :)

I’ve thought about it, but it’s not something I’ll be able to do anytime soon. If it was something like making the extension “official” or having a way to expose web accessible resources for the sites to use, that would be something I could try. Doing away with the extension entirely is harder.

Unfortunately I don’t know much about having a persistent cookie (with the home instance) that different sites can get from the browser, and I don’t know about another way to generate the links. That’s also something which might have privacy concerns if implemented poorly, because any site will have access your home instance (and whatever other information is required). A browser extension was easier to implement because thats something that’s meant to work with many sites, and everything happens locally on your device, so I was more comfortable publishing it.

Some of the other features, like the “trigger a search” button on the community not found page, or even just more instructions on what “community not found” means, those are changes that I can more easily push to the codebase. If it’s not already being worked on, then I’ll look into doing it myself :)