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.

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@feditips @lartsch

That's a very nice thing! Thank you.

Dec 13, 2022 at 8:06pmWeb
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@feditips @lartsch

Meanwhile, I want you people to be careful with this and not visit just very random instances, as it's still exploitable: https://github.com/Lartsch/FediAct/issues/6

Blacklist may help, certainly, but not upon first visit. 

Possible exploit: auto-clicking webapp · Issue #6 · Lartsch/FediAct

There is a probability of edge case where Mastodon web application might be exploited by some instance admin (or fork by association) to automatically click "boost", "favourite", "follow", etc., wh...

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