A Chrome extension that simplifies following Fediverse/Mastodon users on other instances than your own by automatically redirecting you to your instance when pressing a follow button. 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/designs.
Right now, you need to install it using developer mode. The extension is already submitted for review by Google, so it shouldn't be long until you can install it from the Chrome Webstore.
When visiting a user profile on other Mastodon instances, the follow button will now redirect you to your home instance. The redirection is shortly indicated in the follow button itself. Info modals are blocked because they are not needed due to redirection.
The whitelist mode is especially useful if you do not want the extension to run on every site (since it needs to determine if it is a Mastodon site). Not sure the blacklist feature is good for anything but I still included it.
- 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)