Graze for Mastodon – Firefox Extension (addons.mozilla.org)
from mesamunefire@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 16:28
https://lemmy.world/post/27055036

Has anyone tried it?

Ive been looking for something that can make following on mastodon easier and found this.

I just installed it and I really like the ability to go to any Mastodon site and click “Follow” and not having it re-direct to my personal site.

It doesn’t seem to work with GoToSocial at least at the moment, which is unfortunate. Ill have to see if I can “trick” the API by making it think its a mastodon server.

EX: social.jaredzimmerman.com/@jaredzimmerman

@jaredzimmerman@jaredzimmerman.com

Follow button works very well.

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fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Mar 16:45 collapse

Personally, i don’t trust giving full access of an account to a seemingly obscure extension, that is not open source.

And clearly the dev has no intention to make it open source. This was the form on me uninstalling it.

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kevin@kitty.ly on 19 Mar 16:49 next collapse

Wow yikes… I like the idea of the addon but that attitude is just nuts and uncalled for IMO. NOTE: to clarify I mean the developers response

fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Mar 17:00 collapse

The option was also called “not open source / have trust issues” but i mean, no hate against the dev but i see no reason to trust it off the bat. Yeah, the response was kind of immature.

I get open source can be stressful. for example, the summit dev not making it open since they don’t want to deal with PRs/issues but at the very least make it source-available. From my POV this is a cool extension that popped out of nowhere, it’s risky to trust that.

I respect the up-frontness, though.

x00z@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 17:37 collapse

PRs and issues are not a mandatory part of opensource.

You can literally bundle your code and serve it on some random page on a blog and it would be considered opensource.

fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Mar 17:45 collapse

Oh TIL, thank you. Makes it (the decision) make even less sense, now.

x00z@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 22:04 collapse

Lately the definition has become a bit blurred though. Like how some people only consider something “open source” if it also has a copyleft license.

SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Mar 16:51 next collapse

I like that the dev is clear in their intentions towards open source atleast lol Working in groups sucks 😂

fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Mar 17:02 next collapse

I respect how up-front it was at least. I mean, i would’ve prefer at the very least to make it source available to see if it’s trustable, but it’s his choice, i guess.

LemUrun@pawb.social on 19 Mar 17:31 collapse

Yeah, introverts HATE open source.

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 17:00 next collapse

Aww man…that sucks! I guess thats an uninstall for me.

source: faqabout.me/…/is-graze-open-source-software-4901

fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Mar 17:03 collapse

Same… it was a cool extension. :( 🫂

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 17:10 collapse

I see: github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation that does something similar …hmmmm

fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Mar 17:16 collapse

Thank you! Seems alive enough for me. :^)

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 17:29 collapse

I can’t get it to work unfortunately. Going to write up a big report. If anyone gets it working let me know.

fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Mar 17:53 collapse

Weird, works fine for me. Great UI. Honestly this should just be the default functionality

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LemUrun@pawb.social on 19 Mar 17:29 collapse

I mean, I like the extension. But holy hell, what open source did to you?