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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
#12Feels 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).
There used to be an oauth flow for interacting with your home instance. I dont know when they got rid of it, maybe 4.0?
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#13For anyone on iOS, you can use this in the new Orion webbrowser: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id148449...
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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).
There used to be an oauth flow for interacting with your home instance. I dont know when they got rid of it, maybe 4.0?
You'd still need to type in (or select in some other way) your home instance. The instance you're browsing on has no way of knowing otherwise.
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#15For anyone on iOS, you can use this in the new Orion webbrowser: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id148449...
Does this relate to the OP?
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#16Not 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
Odd, I can just click follow, on hachyderm.io even if the followee is on mastodon.social. No annoyances.
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#17Not 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
Odd, I can just click follow, on hachyderm.io even if the followee is on mastodon.social. No annoyances.
I'm betting you're clicking the follow button on the profile at hachyderm.io/@user@mastodon.social and not mastodon.social/@user
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#18I use Mastodon via pinafore.social, which lets me do that. The search feature can find users across instances, which is pretty useful.
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#19Not 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 will never gain significant popularity with UX failures like this.
Re: Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
#20Alas 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
The current discussion is at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19679