Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
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Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#2Not sure if I am missing something, but this is something I can do without any extra extensions installed? Out of the 27 accounts I am currently following, 20 are accounts from other Mastodon instances...
I do have to search for the account on my local instance to start following them instead of being able to click follow right there, but that is a minor annoyance
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#3Not sure if I am missing something, but this is something I can do without any extra extensions installed? Out of the 27 accounts I am currently following, 20 are accounts from other Mastodon instances... I do have to search for the account on my local instance to start following them instead of being able to click follow right there, but that is a minor annoyance
It is solving exactly that minor annoyance you mentioned.
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#4Feels like this should be native to Mastodon. Is there anything preventing this from being implemented?
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#5Not sure if I am missing something, but this is something I can do without any extra extensions installed? Out of the 27 accounts I am currently following, 20 are accounts from other Mastodon instances... I do have to search for the account on my local instance to start following them instead of being able to click follow right there, but that is a minor annoyance
Right, it appears this extension is aimed at the minor annoyance.
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#6Feels like this should be native to Mastodon. Is there anything preventing this from being implemented?
> Is there anything preventing this from being implemented?
Yes, normal browser security restrictions mean one site doesn't have the necessary access to another site. A browser extension can bypass these security restrictions (which also means you have to trust the extension's developer, since the extension has unrestricted access to all sites you open in your browser).
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#7I wouldn't install a browser extension just for this. I think you can use a simple Twitter query[1] that will show you if your users mentioned mastodon links in their profile. Personally, the accounts I'm following are slowly moving out, so keeping track of the links is quite easy.
[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20mastodon%20-...
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#8Alas there's been ongoing press-back against doing the thing the web does, which would be to have a way to registerProtocolHandler with your fedi instance (& be able to quickly flip sites into web protocol mode).
One of the more recent WontFixes, citing previous issuee, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14187
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#9I wouldn't install a browser extension just for this. I think you can use a simple Twitter query[1] that will show you if your users mentioned mastodon links in their profile. Personally, the accounts I'm following are slowly moving out, so keeping track of the links is quite easy. [1] https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20mastodon%20-...
I think you misunderstood what this does. Because Mastodon is federated, when you visit a the profile of a user that's not on your instance, you cannot follow them with the click of a button. Rather, you need to log in to your instance and then search for their username. This exension makes it so that you can follow anybody with the click of a button.
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#10I wouldn't install a browser extension just for this. I think you can use a simple Twitter query[1] that will show you if your users mentioned mastodon links in their profile. Personally, the accounts I'm following are slowly moving out, so keeping track of the links is quite easy. [1] https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20mastodon%20-...
I think you misunderstood what this does. Because Mastodon is federated, when you visit a the profile of a user that's not on your instance, you cannot follow them with the click of a button. Rather, you need to log in to your instance and then search for their username. This exension makes it so that you can follow anybody with the click of a button.
I totally misunderstood the purpose of this extension. Now that you've pointed it out, it's clear that it's quite useful. I was previously manually entering all the users into the search box, which was a pain. I'm glad this extension exists to automate the process. It would be even better if Mastodon integrated something like this natively.