Edit: @redyoshi49q@furry.engineer has designed a better solution using only CSS, and this should be used instead of the old script! If you’re reading this page for the first time, ignore this message.

This userstyle adds a red heart next to people that are from your home server, and any other servers that you manually define. Spot your server buddies out in the wild!

Instructions:

  1. Install Stylus extension for firefox/chrome

  2. “Write new style” in the addon settings

  3. Copy paste the CSS code below in

  4. Modify the code around line ~11 in order to reflect your homeserver and any additional frendservers that you want to highlight

  5. Modify the code around line ~19 to reflect your homeserver

  6. (Optional) If you’d like your homeserver buddies to have a different marker, uncomment the various sections around line ~27 through ~50 by removing the /* and */ bits

  7. (Optional) Play around with different markers and colors!

CSS/Userstyle: https://gist.github.com/redyoshi49q/f1b2d1da0a8f7536aba1f8c3110d2dd8

    • Yote.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, tampermonkey, violentmonkey, greasemonkey, whatever sort of userscript manager you’ve got!

          • Yote.zipOPEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            You just need to rewrite it so the first part matches your homeserver I think.

            There are many url schemes that potential usernames can show up on, e.g. /c/, /post/, /comment/, /u/, and worst of all, any top level site like https://pawb.social/ or https://google.com/ could be a lemmy front-page with usernames on it. Instead of running the userscript on every website you visit and then checking if we were on lemmy afterwards, I thought it was just easier to only run on your personal homeserver, which is where you should generally always be anyway (if I understand lemmy UX correctly)

            • God@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              The way I’ve done mine is to detect universally if it’s a lemmy instance, and if it is, run. Otherwise just return.

              • Yote.zipOPEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                Yeah, that’s definitely an option, but then the script will have to check on every website you visit. Practically it’s not a problem but it feels a little weird. If there’s a good reason to run this script on foreign lemmy servers it’s not a problem to change to that style, but for right now I didn’t see a reason to make it global.

                • God@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  when i install it i’ll just make it run globally, i see no reason why not x) i’m always visiting all the instances anyway cuz it’s better that way for now until better fedtools come out

            • Yote.zipOPEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              In its current iteration, the @match line needs to be switched to say @match https://sh.itjust.works/* for you.