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Introducing WebIntents: A universal follow button for the fediverse.
Embed or link it anywhere. Click, enter your server, follow.
Works with Mastodon, Emissary, Loops & more.
Powered by @benpate's amazing Activity Intents FEP*.
Coming soon.
Calling all fediverse devs: let's collaborate and make this better together. ✨
* - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md
@webintents
>Include the WebIntents script in your HTML.
We need a better solution. JavaScript is incompatible with private browsing over Tor or I2P.
@benpate
Out of laziness, my first implementation was built in Go, so I know it’s possible. I’m happy to help someone repackage this as a service if there’s interest.
Though, if there’s no JS at all, the UX would not be quite as good.
There’s also a privacy issue: putting this logic on the server means telling websites who you are. A JS-only solution lets you stay anonymous.
This looks pretty interesting.. how would I use this?
The easiest way to try it is in a p2p-capable browser like @peersky or @agregore Open the app there, paste the URL of any Fediverse account into the follow box, and it will fetch and store posts locally in your browser. You don’t need to create an account. Once followed, their updates show up in your reader and remain available offline, you can also customize your timeline.
@webintents @benpate Can this be done without having to enter your server?
@webintents @benpate You mean on something like Android? Or also on desktop Linux?
Is FedCM going to help with this?
@webintents @lyyn @benpate so I'm not familiar enough to know: does that include *only* Android and some other unspecified mobile platforms, or does it include Android and also Chromium and Firefox-based browsers on desktop?
IMO removing that "type in your server" step is 100% vital to making this work and not leading with that almost made me skip over this post. :)
