LemmyLinks - Reddit to Lemmy Crossposter – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
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Download LemmyLinks - Reddit to Lemmy Crossposter for Firefox. LemmyLinks lets you seamlessly share Reddit posts to Lemmy communities in two clicks and simplifies content migration to the decentralized Fediverse!

Hey everyone, I thought I’d post a test of a Firefox browser extension I’ve been working on that streamlines crossposting Reddit posts over to Lemmy communities.

The extension works by injecting a new ‘Share to Lemmy’ button under each Reddit post in your web browser. Clicking on the new button opens a pop-up menu that auto-completes the relevant fields for your Lemmy post (post title, text body, external URL, thumbnail image). The menu provides a field for you to search Lemmy communities, and relevant results are provided as you type.

The extension options menu provides a means of logging in and out of your Lemmy account in order to make posts. Click on the extension in the browser toolbar to access options and sign in to Lemmy.

Firefox Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmylinks/

Some known issues I plan on working out soon:

  • No support for mobile browsers yet.
  • Instance selection isn’t correctly filtering community search results. As a result it’s a tad difficult to determine if the ‘politics’ community you’re posting to is for lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc.
  • Sometimes image URLs for images hosted on Reddit aren’t correctly identified for upload to Lemmy, and they have to be manually input.
  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I honestly think this is a good idea. From what I understand it’s just making it easy to share the same link from reddit without having to copypaste a bunch of stuff, right? It’s like reading an RSS feed or stumbling upon a cool thing you want to share and having an easy way to do so.

    Don’t worry about the naysayers. There are always a bunch of purists around that believe the world can be divided into black and white.

    Lemmy-users won’t be able to tell the difference between somebody who found a link and shared it by copy pasting or someone using the extension🤷 Good content is everywhere and where you found it shouldn’t matter.

    Put the source up on codeberg, publish the extension, and let people decide for themselves if they want to use it or not.

    Good luck

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