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
        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
                    1·
                    2 years ago

                    Did you edit the variables at the top of the script? It no longer assumes your homeserver, since it works globally.

                    I put in sh.itjust.works as the homeserver and this is the view from sh.itjust.works server:

                    and this is the view from pawb.social side (identical):

                    Edit: Also, at least in my experience I had to refresh old pages once or twice before the new script would start working. Try a few new tabs and see if that fixes it.

        • 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.