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If you use Mastodon through a computer, you can install a special browser extension called FediAct which lets you directly interact with other servers' websites:

:firefox: FediAct for Firefox
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

:google: FediAct for Chome
chrome.google.com/webstore/det

This can be very useful if you are following web links to other servers, for example in the listings on fedi.directory

FediAct is free and open source:
github.com/lartsch/FediAct

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MKSinSA

@feditips
Installed it on mine and it's fantastic! Feels totally seamless on most instances.

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Martin Urschel

@feditips Something like this for the app (eg I'm using Megalodon) would be great. Is there a technical reason why it can be a browser extension but not an app feature?

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Yingtai

@feditips I have the FediAct extension on my Android tablet as well! The Chrome app on Android can't install extensions, but the Kiwi browser app can, and it works very much like Chrome. It's made browsing other instances much easier.

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nathan@fosstodon:~$:idle:

@feditips bookmarking this to install on my computer later

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don albertson

@feditips No indication of why it must have so many permissions on my computer.

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Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國

@feditips
I use FediAct for Firefox. Seems to work as advertised. I haven't had any cross-server troubles. 😄

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𝕵𝖔𝖍𝖆𝖓 ⛧

@feditips Nice, but doesn’t work.

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Alan Hudson

@feditips dumb question: would this allow you to look at who another person on another server was following on Mastodon? I am still trying to broaden my Mastodon ‘scope’ (can’t think of the right word)

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Jeff Morris ZA

@feditips This should have been possible from day one. Sorry.

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Colin Cogle

@feditips Why is this important? What am I missing? I’m not trolling. I’m just genuinely wondering as a relative noob to Mastodon.

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Ethan

@feditips good job, very handy

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JamesTDG

@feditips I've been wanting this for a while

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TheRandomGamerTRG

@feditips
Reminder that Firefox extensions (like the first link) can be installed on the Android Firefox browser.
You can access this via browser on android.

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Lizardguy

@feditips Got one for Edge?

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Starbeamrainbowlabs

@feditips woah, if this works it'll be fantastic! This is easily my biggest annoyance behind discoverability of accounts / multi-instance search (search.noc.social was cool while it was running :-()

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