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Alternative Source Links in Posts
From https://dubvee.org/post/1621850:
Other Lemmy App Devs: Please steal this feature from me
Feature: Alternate Source Selector
Implementation Difficulty: Easy
Live Example: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/c/[email protected] (The "link" icon to the left of the post's URL.)
Rationale: I'm quite annoyed with people whining "pAyWallED!" in news post comments, and this is Tesseract's way of addressing that (for users of that UI, anyway)
Description:
On posts with links (that aren't images, audio, video, Youtube, or other media), a dropdown menu is added with links to alternate sources.
Each one will search for the URL in the selected archive provider (currently Ghost Archive, Archive Today, 12ft.io) or Ground News (new in 1.4.5).
Lemmy-UI kind of does this, but completely ass-backwards (only during post creation to set the post link; I'll spare you my spiel about how that's a horrible vector for misinformation).
On Youtube-like posts (YT, Invidious, or Piped), the options are changed to go to the canonical YT link, your preferred Invidious instance, or your preferred Piped instance, but that's just a secondary (but still nice) feature of that component.
Would love to see something like this more widely adopted and am more than happy to answer any implementation questions.
Basically, I'm providing (currently) 4 links on posts based upon the URL of the post. I'm presenting them as a dropdown menu in my implementation, but how it's presented to the end-user is completely up to the developer.
Conditions:
- Post has a value in its
urlfield. - Post is not an image, video, or audio file
Link Templates (where %s is the post URL, including scheme):
- Archive Today:
https://archive.ph/%s - Ghost Archive:
https://ghostarchive.org/search?term=%s - 12ft.io:
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=%s - Ground News (not an archive provider, but can search for similar coverage of the provided article that may not be paywalled):
https://ground.news/find?url=%s
