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 threadDavid LynchNov 30, 2022
@viticci it seems to not work for posts for me. E.g. https://mastodon.social/@Meyerweb/109430741858138880 redirected to https://mastodon.cloud/@Meyerweb@mastodon.social/109430742016327565 which is a 404.
Show threadDavid LynchNov 30, 2022
@viticci the actual URL I get for that post via my instance’s search is https://mastodon.cloud/web/statuses/109430742016327565 🤷🏻
Eric Meyer (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Sweet mother of Minnie Pearl, I just discovered that Mastodon uses XFN (XHTML Friends Network, a protocol I co-authored 19 years ago) to verify ownership of sites you link in your profile. I like this place more and more all the time.

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Show threadFederico ViticciNov 30, 2022
@kemayo Interesting! I wonder if maybe that's related to a different version of the API they're using there?
Show threadDavid Lynch
@viticci it does seem to not have updated to mastodon 4 yet, which might be it.
Nov 30, 2022 at 7:19pmWeb