One thing that’s a bit of a hassle with Mastodon is that you can’t immediately follow people on other instances.

You have to copy the username and search for it on the server that has your account.

To make this easier, I’ve created a little bookmarklet. Press it, and you’ll be taken to the same account as viewed from the masto host you are on.

GitHub Gist: https://gist.github.com/bramus/d8bce55dab1881cde18aa2169c66ac33

(Change the value of `MY_MASTO_HOST` in the code to your mastodon host –not URL– and you’re good to go)

Mastodon User Page Bookmarklet

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@bramus https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20533 is an issue to allow viewing of follower/following lists from your local instance, so you can interact with it using your identity. It fixes the feature gap the bookmarklet is a workaround for, so please consider upvoting it.
Allow web users to view remote posts/follower/following lists inline in the web application, and at all in the mobile application · Issue #20533 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Currently when you view a user profile from your local instance via the web application, you only see their follower/following that are visible to the local instance. A link is provided, "Bro...

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