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Mastodon – Simplified Federation by @rugk makes remote follows less cumbersome by automatically entering your Mastodon account details and puts that functionality where it should be: in your browser.
You can get it for Firefox from:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mastodon-simplified-federation/
@CorruptComputer @aral not yet unfortunately, however it could be made. Any contribution is clearly appreciated!
See
https://github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation/issues/55 for details.
@otto9otto @aral just try to use Mastodon as you would normally do. It will prompt and guide you to do the the necessary steps by itself, i.e. when you e.g. try to follow a remote user.
Alternatively, the place where you need yo go is the add-on management page `about:add-ons`, find the extension there and then go to the settings tab there. Then you need to enter your Mastodon handle there, once.
@aral @rugk Awesome! This has always been one of the annoying things about remote interactions.
I like the way the preferences just automatically check your username to see if you're logged into your home instance.
Note to anyone else reading this: Remember your username is case-sensitive! If you have mixed case in it, you have to type the capitals correctly!
@KelsonV @aral well it does not technically check whether the username is currently logged in. After all you could enter a foreign one (just like with the default #Mastodon popup) and be redirected onto another instance. That may actually be useful though, as you can login afterwards anyway in case you have an account on that instance.
@KelsonV @aral yes it does. See https://github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation/wiki/Testing for all the expected states/checks it does.
