Hi all,
I’d hereby like to announce lmmy.to, an instance-aware redirector for Lemmy that allows you to directly link people to Lemmy communities on their own instance.
As an example, try https://lmmy.to/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml.
I’ve created !lmmy_to@derp.foo to discuss it. There’s also a FAQ.
Edit: I’ve resolved the 500 error people were getting.
I don’t think it makes sense to rewrite two times, why point to a link redirector if you can already point to the place the link redirector would redirect you to? What if your service is down but the actual redirect target is not?
Sorry, my reply probably wasn’t entirely clear. I meant the other way around: rewrite links to lmmy.to to go to the user’s instance.