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As somebody who has followed exactly one person before seeing these links, I appreciate the list. But wow, is there no better way to follow than a three click o

As somebody who has followed exactly one person before seeing these links, I appreciate the list. But wow, is there no better way to follow than a three click operation? click one: click "follow" initially click two: submit id to home server, "proceed" click three: yes, really "follow" and click again Also, those lists intersect quite a bit.

Kye 7y ago
It does have a Minimum Viable Product feel. https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Trunk https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Trunk As far as custom issue trackers go, this one isn't too bad. You could suggest an improvement. If you know perl, you could even write your own extension to provide this functionality.
jamesgeck0 7y ago
That's only the flow if you click "follow" when you're looking at a profile on a third party server. If you come across that same profile in your server's federated timeline, it's a one click operation.
egypturnash 7y ago
Paste link/username into the search box above the new toot box, hit return, the user will appear in the UI of your home server, hit the ‘follow’ button, done. Probably about the same number of clicks, admittedly, but it may feel faster.
WorldMaker 7y ago
This site could ask you to sign in with your home instance first, then Follow would be a single click operation as it could call the appropriate API call on your home instance. (It could even show you which ones you already follow in that case.) It would require quite a bit more code though to get the OAuth flow in place. The Twitter bridge takes this approach. https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/ https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/ It's open source and could be used as example code for the community list tool. (https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/bridge https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/bridge)
- Kye 7y ago
  The bridge died when Eugen deactivated his personal Twitter. He couldn't get an API key for the project account.

Kye 7y ago

It does have a Minimum Viable Product feel. https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Trunk https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Trunk As far as custom issue trackers go, this one isn't too bad. You could suggest an improvement. If you know perl, you could even write your own extension to provide this functionality.

jamesgeck0 7y ago

That's only the flow if you click "follow" when you're looking at a profile on a third party server. If you come across that same profile in your server's federated timeline, it's a one click operation.

egypturnash 7y ago

Paste link/username into the search box above the new toot box, hit return, the user will appear in the UI of your home server, hit the ‘follow’ button, done. Probably about the same number of clicks, admittedly, but it may feel faster.

WorldMaker 7y ago

This site could ask you to sign in with your home instance first, then Follow would be a single click operation as it could call the appropriate API call on your home instance. (It could even show you which ones you already follow in that case.) It would require quite a bit more code though to get the OAuth flow in place. The Twitter bridge takes this approach. https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/ https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/ It's open source and could be used as example code for the community list tool. (https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/bridge https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/bridge)

Kye 7y ago
The bridge died when Eugen deactivated his personal Twitter. He couldn't get an API key for the project account.