A Chrome/Firefox extension that simplifies following Mastodon users on other instances than your own by automatically redirecting you to your instance when pressing a follow button. The redirection is shortly indicated in the follow button itself and additional modals are blocked. Should work for other Chromium browsers too, as well as Kiwi browser on Android. It was tested with about 20 instances and supports different instance layouts/flavours. There are cases where it might fail (see notes and todos below). Additional features are planned.
> 2. The whitelist mode can be useful if you do not want the extension to run basic checks on every site (since it needs to determine if it is a Mastodon site). Not sure if the blacklist feature is good for anything but I still included it.
> 3. It can have several reasons why a redirection/instance might not work:
> - Sometime, even if the handle is correct, a direct redirect to your instance can result in the page loading forever. This seems to be some caching issue / your instance has never seen this user. You need to copy the complete handle into the search in this case and open the profile from there. After that, the redirect will work like usual, since your instance has loaded the user once.
- Fix some rare cases where an instance runs on a subdomain but the handle uses the domain without subdomain (need to get the handle directly from the profile instead of URL + domain name) (DONE)
- Add feature to indicate if you are already following a user when browsing his profile on another instance (this requires calls to the home instance, will look into it soon)
