BramusNov 21, 2022

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

Mastodon User Page Bookmarklet. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Show threadPaul TaylorNov 21, 2022
@bramus @thomasreggi built a similar bookmarklet for this kind of thing as well.
https://indieweb.social/@thomasreggi/109369591846357657
It’s good to see these popping up, but highlights a bit of a need for more native and easy to use solution. Hope we get that at some point.
thomas 🌸 (@[email protected])

Just created a mastodon browser bookmarklet that makes it easier for you to redirect from other instances to your instance. all you have to do is replace "indieweb.social" with your instance, unless your on "indieweb.social" 😉 So if you're clicking and find a mastodon profile you want to follow, you click the bookmarklet and it will take you directly to their profile on your instance 🪄 https://codepen.io/reggi/full/mdKqgQx

Indieweb.Social
Show threadtea 🌺Nov 21, 2022
@ampersarnie @bramus there's another solution out there from @elizabeth that I replicated here https://mastodon-redirect.deno.dev/ some good links there, it involves using local storage to set and redirect people to their instances a tool by @jlarky uses it https://imverified.up.railway.app/techtwitter
Show threadricvolpeNov 22, 2022

@thomasreggi @ampersarnie @bramus @elizabeth @jlarky

great work going on here by everyone!

I was trying to get this to work with posts but I noticed that the post ID is different between instances so not easy to cross-references. Has anyone looked into this?

Show threadJLarkyNov 22, 2022
@ricvolpe can you explain the usecase a bit more? :-)
Show threadricvolpe
@jlarky I'd like to favourite a post I stumble upon when browsing another server instance on Web without having to search the post URL in my server instance
Nov 22, 2022 at 9:48pmWeb
Show threadJLarkyNov 22, 2022
@ricvolpe interesting, I don't browse too far away from my home feed :)
Show threadNatanael ⚠️Nov 23, 2022
@ricvolpe @jlarky i think you can search for the full post URL from your home instance and it will get resolved