One thing that’s a bit of a hassle with Mastodon is that you can’t immediately follow people on other instances: you have to copy the username and search for it on the instance that hosts your account.
To make this easier, this extension exists. Press the button, and you’ll be taken to the same account as viewed from the Masto instance you are on.
mastodon-view-profile-demo.mp4
There’s two options:
- Install it from the Chrome Web Store
- Git clone this repo and load it unpacked.
- Make sure you configure the extension once installed. To do this, right click on the extension icon and choose “Options”
- When viewing a Mastodon page, hit the icon to get redirected to the profile shown on your instance.
- TIP: To get easy access, pin the extension icon
- Supported pages
- Profile page
- Profile page that is set up to redirect to another account
- Message detail page
This project is offered as is. However, I am open to receiving bug reports and accepting PRs to improve this extension.
This project is released under the MIT public license. See the enclosed LICENSE for details.
Icon by Flatart