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Iiiinteresting, Mastodon changed the behavior for what happens when you are viewing the user profile on a remote server and hit "follow". Instead of the often-not-working "remote follow" action, you now get this modal that says "please copy/paste this into your client and hit follow"

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Nelson Chu Pavlosky

@darius I assume this would break the "simplified federation" Firefox add-on I've been using: github.com/rugk/mastodon-simpl

It works well, but having to install software to follow people may be a non-starter for most.

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Nelson Minar

@darius clumsy but maybe better than the mess it used to be? I also hate how I can't simply reply when viewing a post alone on the home server's URL. (Just made that mistake replying here!) This federation stuff has a lot of rough edges.

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Zack Weinberg

@darius What is the form of the "different server" URL? I want to try to construct it by hand for someone I've been so far unable to follow from h.t

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alys

@darius if people are following links from their home instance to another instance, i suppose instances could use the referer header (after checking the domain is a mastodon instance and not another website) and send them back to that instance. might have to make it opt-in for privacy reasons.

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Kat M. Moss

@darius I saw that a couple of times last week... thought it was just a janky server setting in that particular instance. Appears it's a global change...

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@darius I have some idea of how mastodont federation works, but what does this mean in context of using the iPhone app?

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