firefox (and chrome) addons that help navigating instances ( kbin.social )

If you are looking for assistance in trying to interact with pages found on instances other than the one on which you have an account, here is what I believe is available so far.

you can see the same information as a table here.

note: this information will certainly become out of date in the near future. I advise you to conduct a fresh search for up to date information

Update July 3, 2023: I fixed the links hopefully. While I was doing that, I included links to chrome store where developer provided them. But I didn't search the chrome store itself.

Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin

  • Install Firefox, Chrome coming soon
  • FF dev page cynber (Support developer)
  • Description Ensures that the Lemmy instance you are on is the one you want to be on.
  • This extension will create a button on a Lemmy community page, which will let you easily jump to the same page on your home instance.
  • Users 24
  • Reviews Reviews Rated 3 out of 5
  • Permissions Access your data for all websites
  • Links Support site
  • Version + size 1.0.1 (See all versions), 97.22 KB
  • Updated a day ago (Jul 1, 2023)
  • License GNU General Public License v3.0

Lemmy Home Instance Helper

  • Install Firefox
  • FF dev page RedKrieg
  • Description Adds a 'Search' link to Lemmy communities on servers where you are not logged in.
  • Users 11
  • Reviews There are no ratings yet.
  • Permissions Access your data for all websites
  • Links Homepage, Support site, Support Email (note July 3, 23: The first 2 links are not working for me but they are as listed on the firefox page)
  • Version + size 0.2.2 (See all versions), 12.23 KB
  • Updated 17 days ago (Jun 15, 2023)
  • License The MIT License

Kbin Link

  • Install Firefox, Chrome
  • FF dev page Lixus
  • Description Find it annoying to copy paste [email protected] to look at a Lemmy community? This extension is for you.
  • This extension looks for Lemmy style communities and replaces them to direct you to seeing that community on your kbin/lemmy instance.
  • Users 162
  • Reviews Reviews Rated 5 out of 5
  • Permissions Access your data for all websites
  • Links Support site, Support Email
  • Version + size 1.3.9 (See all versions), 29.42 KB
  • Updated 17 days ago (Jun 16, 2023)
  • License Unlicense

Lemmy Link

Otome-chan ,
@Otome-chan@kbin.social avatar

I also made a thread for some kbin userscripts/extensions to make things a bit easier. see here.

notably I highly suggest kbin enhancement script which adds a lot of usability and quality of life features.

density OP ,
@density@kbin.social avatar

Hi I installed via greasemonkey and it took me a while of switching on/off to discern a ny difference.

All I can see is that for thread pages, top level comments, at the bottom, there is a link toggle replies (x) (x = # of replies) which hides comments below.

I disabled any other plugin/userstyle/userscript that might be acting on lemmy/kbin.

Otome-chan ,
@Otome-chan@kbin.social avatar

If you check the sidebar settings you can see a list of stuff that you can toggle with kbin enhancement script. Things such as showing the host instance for a user/magazine, moving the comment box to the top of comments, letting you collapse comment threads, showing the OP in a thread, etc. it does a lot of the things I felt kbin was lacking.

density OP ,
@density@kbin.social avatar

Aha! I see now. I thought I looked there before but missed the difference. Thanks!

IONLYpost , (edited )
@IONLYpost@kbin.social avatar

All the links are dead...

density OP ,
@density@kbin.social avatar

fixed hopefully

imecth , (edited )
@imecth@kbin.social avatar

The kbin link is dead.
here's the current url for the addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kbin-link/

yGns ,
@yGns@kbin.social avatar

Also available for Chromium browsers here.

density OP ,
@density@kbin.social avatar

thanks! actually all the links were broken :) I got a little carried away with regex tidying it up I think. Should all be fixed

wrath-sedan ,
@wrath-sedan@kbin.social avatar

Great list, thanks for sharing!

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