I’ve starting working on a lemmy front end called lemmy-ui-leptos using leptos, a Rust UI framework with isomorphic support, and tailwind + daisyUI for the component styling. This could eventually replace the frankenstein’s monster that lemmy-ui has become.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The issue is really with links specifically , and the concept of web addresses for federated content in general. The web model does not map very well onto federated networks. Concrete example: If I search for something on google and then get a lemmy/kbin result, my browser doesn’t know that I want to view this content through my home instance. The question “I have a Mastodon/Lemmy account, so why can’t I fave/reply/whatever this content?” comes up a lot. The issue here is that people view the content through a web browser, and web browsers don’t understand the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The best solution there would probably be some brower plugin/extension/whatever that replaces fedivers URLs with the "redirecting" URL of your instance of choice.

Given that it's a simple text replacement, the most complicated part is probably recognizing fediverse sites (a list of sites with a fallback button would also work).