FediTips has moved!Dec 13, 2022

Have you ever interacted with the website of another Mastodon server and found yourself having to re-enter your username and password, again and again?

There's a new browser extension called FediAct which lets you directly interact with other servers' websites without having to log in again or copy/paste addresses.

➡️ Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fediact/lmpcajpkjcclkjbliapfjfolocffednm

➡️ Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fediact/

More info about it at:

➡️ https://github.com/Lartsch/FediAct

The developer of FediAct is @lartsch

FediAct

Simplifies interactions on other Mastodon instances than your own. Visit https://github.com/lartsch/FediAct for more.

Show threadTracingVRL by A.J. Fish
@feditips @lartsch So, great, but to attract the people fleeing to Post -- owned by tech VC and massive data gatherer Marc Andreesen -- installing a browser extension is more cumbersome than setting a cookie. Cookies aren't evil. Only evil cookies are evil.
Dec 13, 2022 at 7:48pmWeb
Show threadZachary Wander Dec 13, 2022

@tracingcovid @feditips @lartsch

I'm no web dev but from my understanding, cross-domain cookies are pretty much impossible in modern browsers, especially if you don't control all those domains.

Show threadstarrwulfeDec 13, 2022

No less cumbersome than clicking on “Tweet This!”, being led to an interstitial where I have to log into Twitter and give it permissions and then jump back to the modal where I actually tweet.

This isn’t 1997 where nobody knows what a browser extension does either. Put it out there, walk ‘em through it. Each one, teach one.