[-] Raicuparta@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Sure you might have a lower number of cars total, but you'll also have way more cars on the road, making the traffic problem even worse (because you can now have more cars than people). I'm guessing we'll be seeing legislation that disallows empty cars driving around in big cities.

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submitted 1 year ago by Raicuparta@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

tl;dr: With Lemmy Go you type lg beekeeping on the address bar and it takes you to the most popular beekeeping community, or you can pick one from the given suggestions.

Get Lemmy Go for Firefox

Get Lemmy Go for Chrome

More information about Lemmy Go on GitHub

Why

On Reddit, I had a simple search keyword for navigating directly to subreddits, where I could just type r firefox and be taken to reddit.com/r/firefox.

I wanted to have the same behavior for Lemmy, but the Fediverse makes this a lot more complicated.

So I made Lemmy Go to try and make it as simple as possible to jump to a community, or even find new ones more easily.

It's still a work in progress, so it might be a bit unstable and missing a bunch of features. But I've been using it myself for a few days, and it's already pretty helpful.

Usage

Type lg followed by a space (some browsers also accept tab instead), and then type the name of the community you're looking for.

Example: lg linux

Lemmy Go will search its database for any community that has the text linux in its name (e.g. linux_gaming) or title (Linux Gaming).

If you just type a community name and press enter, Lemmy Go will take you to the most popular community from that list.

If you don't press enter right away, you will be shown a list of communities that match that query. You can then select the specific one you want.

Preferred Instance

If you set your preferred instance in the user settings (click the extension icon), Lemmy Go will try its best to navigate to that community in your preferred instance, although this isn't always possible (in which case Lemmy Go will just navigate to the remote instance instead).

For instance, if your preferred instance is set to lemmy.ml and you select firefox@lemmy.world, Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.ml/c/firefox@lemmy.world.

But if lemmy.ml blocks the lemmy.world instance, then Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.world/c/firefox instead.

Read the readme on GitHub for more information about how Lemmy Go works

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Raicuparta@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

tl;dr: With Lemmy Go you type lg beekeeping on the address bar and it takes you to the most popular beekeeping community, or you can pick one from the given suggestions.

Get Lemmy Go for Firefox

Get Lemmy Go for Chrome

More information about Lemmy Go on GitHub

Why

On Reddit, I had a simple search keyword for navigating directly to subreddits, where I could just type r firefox and be taken to reddit.com/r/firefox.

I wanted to have the same behavior for Lemmy, but the Fediverse makes this a lot more complicated.

So I made Lemmy Go to try and make it as simple as possible to jump to a community, or even find new ones more easily.

It's still a work in progress, so it might be a bit unstable and missing a bunch of features. But I've been using it myself for a few days, and it's already pretty helpful.

Usage

Type lg followed by a space (some browsers also accept tab instead), and then type the name of the community you're looking for.

Example: lg linux

Lemmy Go will search its database for any community that has the text linux in its name (e.g. linux_gaming) or title (Linux Gaming).

If you just type a community name and press enter, Lemmy Go will take you to the most popular community from that list.

If you don't press enter right away, you will be shown a list of communities that match that query. You can then select the specific one you want.

Preferred Instance

If you set your preferred instance in the user settings (click the extension icon), Lemmy Go will try its best to navigate to that community in your preferred instance, although this isn't always possible (in which case Lemmy Go will just navigate to the remote instance instead).

For instance, if your preferred instance is set to lemmy.ml and you select firefox@lemmy.world, Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.ml/c/firefox@lemmy.world.

But if lemmy.ml blocks the lemmy.world instance, then Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.world/c/firefox instead.

Read the readme on GitHub for more information about how Lemmy Go works

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Raicuparta@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

EDIT: Lemmy Go is now available for Chrome and Firefox

I had a shortcut for subreddits, where I would just type r beekeeping in the address bar and it would take me to /r/beekeeping right away. For Lemmy, this isn't very convenient, since you gotta specify the instance for any communities outside your own instance.

I'm trying to make a browser extension to bring back that kind of quick navigation. In this case if you type lc beekeeping in your address bar and press enter, it will navigate to the most popular community it finds in any instance, and it will show that community in your local instance.

If you don't press enter right away, it will show multiple communities that match your query, so this can also be a quicker way to find new communities without knowing the exact name.

I'm checking if people would be interested just to see if it's worth the trouble to polish it up, add user settings, and publish the extension to the stores.

Raicuparta

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