Mastodawn

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.

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

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@bramus this is cool! @ricvolpe and I were talking about this earlier.

I made a start on an Apple Shortcut that should be able to handle this too when on iOS / iPad. It’s a little rough around the edges but as a v0.2 it does alright: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/90f411dd8408455787a106da34ffb016

great find! but the booklet doesn't work for me in Chrome. It doesn't find meta[property="profile:username"

@ricvolpe @mattjbones Do you have an example profile URL page where it doesn’t work?

when viewing a user not on their primary instance

Yah this is a gotcha for sure. My Shortcut won’t handle that path yet, as it assumes that the user is ok their instance.

I wanted to avoid parsing HTML in Shortcuts but this might be a better way really

@mattjbones @ricvolpe Updated my bookmarklet. It now handles profile pages, profile pages that have moved to a different server, and status pages.

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@bramus @ricvolpe I revisited my Shortcut, it will now look for the meta tags for username.

I might have to take inspiration from the bookmarklet though and handle those other edge cases.