Federico ViticciNov 29, 2022

Ever wished it was easier to view posts or profiles from another Mastodon instance on *your* instance, without any manual copy & paste?

I made Masto-Redirect, a shortcut that can redirect both account pages and individual posts to your own Mastodon instance.

Takes 1 minute to set up, can run on all Apple platforms. Free to download. Hope you'll find this useful: https://www.macstories.net/ios/masto-redirect-a-mastodon-shortcut-to-redirect-profiles-and-posts-to-your-own-instance/

Masto-Redirect, a Mastodon Shortcut to Redirect Profiles and Posts to Your Own Instance

Like many others over the past month, I’ve been thinking deeply about my experience with Twitter and whether I want to align my social media usage with the kind of platform Twitter is rapidly becoming. It’s a complex discussion (if my readers are still on Twitter, am I doing them a disservice by not using

Show threadMarcos Huerta
@viticci I think we essentially wrote the same thing! I thought needing an API key was kind of ridiculous but it helps. Mine only works on posts so far.
Nov 29, 2022 at 6:20pmWeb
Show threadMarcos HuertaNov 29, 2022

@viticci Since mine does not work on profile pages I don’t have all the conditionals (and regex) that you have because I don’t have to figure out if it’s a post or a profile.

I think the best solution on iOS/iPadOS is client apps should have a “open this page in <client>” share sheet action like Tweetbot does for Twitter urls.

Show threadFederico ViticciNov 29, 2022
@marcoshuerta Ha! Nice 😄