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🐭 POST to lemmies

A cross-browser extension to post links to your Lemmy instance. For now it is still in development.

This project is a fork from a similar project of mine : POST to lemmy

This version allows you have multiple lemmy instances stored by the extension, they are accessible from any device using your Google or Firefox account.

🛠️ Installation

🦊 On Mozilla Firefox

  1. 📁 Download the last release of the packaged extension for Firefox (.zip or .xpi) the add-on should install itself, otherwise follow the steps below.
  2. 🐛 Go to about:extensions page on Firefox browser
  3. ➕ click on Load Add-On from a file
  4. 📂 Select the extension package
  5. 🐭 Open the extension using the icon at the top-right corner of your browser window and input the login intels to your Lemmy instance

On Google Chrome and other Chromium based browser 🔵 🟢 🟡 🔴

  1. 📁 Download the last release of the packaged extension for Chrome (.crx)
  2. 🧩 Open the chrome://extensions/ page in Chrome browser woch is the extension management page, it's url may change depending on your browser.
  3. 📂 Drag and drop the .crx into the browser window
  4. 🛠️ Click on the puzzle to pin the add-on to the extension toolbar
  5. 🐭 Open the extension using the icon at the top-right corner of your browser window and input the login intels to your Lemmy instance

Rolling release / development mode

See wiki

Your lemmy instance shall use the v3 version of the Lemmy HTTP API (Lemmy version >= 0.10.0) to work with the extension.

You can see the lemmy version in the footer of any lemmy

Use

  1. Go to any web page
  2. Select the part of it's content that you want to share
  3. Open the extension
  4. Edit the text and the title to match your needs
  5. POST ! ✉️

Features

  • Auto-filling fields
  • Select content on the page to add it to the post text
  • Auto-customizing popup based on your lemmy instance
  • Markdown editor for post content
  • Markdown pre-viewer
  • Register several different instances of Lemmy

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