Has anyone tried it?

Ive been looking for something that can make following on mastodon easier and found this.

I just installed it and I really like the ability to go to any Mastodon site and click “Follow” and not having it re-direct to my personal site.

It doesn’t seem to work with GoToSocial at least at the moment, which is unfortunate. Ill have to see if I can “trick” the API by making it think its a mastodon server.

EX: https://social.jaredzimmerman.com/@jaredzimmerman

@jaredzimmerman@jaredzimmerman.com

Follow button works very well.

  • fxomt
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    534 days ago

    Personally, i don’t trust giving full access of an account to a seemingly obscure extension, that is not open source.

    And clearly the dev has no intention to make it open source. This was the form on me uninstalling it.

    • Kevin
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      4 days ago

      Wow yikes… I like the idea of the addon but that attitude is just nuts and uncalled for IMO. NOTE: to clarify I mean the developers response

      • fxomt
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        204 days ago

        The option was also called “not open source / have trust issues” but i mean, no hate against the dev but i see no reason to trust it off the bat. Yeah, the response was kind of immature.

        I get open source can be stressful. for example, the summit dev not making it open since they don’t want to deal with PRs/issues but at the very least make it source-available. From my POV this is a cool extension that popped out of nowhere, it’s risky to trust that.

        I respect the up-frontness, though.

        • @x00z@lemmy.world
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          204 days ago

          PRs and issues are not a mandatory part of opensource.

          You can literally bundle your code and serve it on some random page on a blog and it would be considered opensource.

          • fxomt
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            4 days ago

            Oh TIL, thank you. Makes it (the decision) make even less sense, now.

            • @x00z@lemmy.world
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              44 days ago

              Lately the definition has become a bit blurred though. Like how some people only consider something “open source” if it also has a copyleft license.

      • fxomt
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        94 days ago

        I respect how up-front it was at least. I mean, i would’ve prefer at the very least to make it source available to see if it’s trustable, but it’s his choice, i guess.