Ensures that all URLs to Lemmy instances always point to your main/home instance.
This script transforms links from other instances to your home instance. So useful :)
As @MedicareForSome@lemmy.ml explained:
It makes it so that if you visit another instance using their URL, it will redirect you to your home version’s federated link.
E.g. if your home server is Lemmy.world, let’s say you find a link to Lemmy on another website but it’s a link to Lemmy.ml. If you click the link, you won’t be signed in.
Would you mind explaining to me why i would want to do this? It's a genuine question.. i'm still learning Lemmy but do run my own instance just for my account.
It makes it so that if you visit another instance using their URL, it will redirect you to your home version’s federated link.
E.g. if your home server is Lemmy.world, let’s say you find a link to Lemmy on another website but it’s a link to Lemmy.ml. If you click the link, you won’t be signed in.
It's more like you'll have trouble opening some links without a script like this. It's my understanding that the link points to a post through an instance. A script like this will link you to the same post through your own instance.
So it's not that it's preferred in some sort of etiquette way, but this script will make links work more effortlessly or at all
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. I'm only trying to convince myself that I understand what's going on.