Don't mind me, just setting up my #tootski.

https://tootski.dev/

@bracken @judell #tootski

@shoq @Green_Footballs yes, please! Also keep an eye on the #fediact and #FediAct, which does a lot of what #tootski does, but better. :)

I feel strongly that a great browser extension should be a core part of the Mastodon experience, to help knit together disparate servers. "Install a browser extension to help" ought to be something that new desktop users hear along with hashtag and alt-text advice.

@Green_Footballs ooh, interesting! I'd love to see how you're doing this; I had a please-include-a-hashtag reminder in the first version of #tootski but I pulled it because it was breaking things.

@feditips @podkaynelives @PleaseCaption to that I will add: if you’re a desktop user, consider installing a browser extension such as #tootski or #fediact to help smooth out the edges between Mastodon servers.

Tried #tootski and it's actually made my fedderated world a little bigger.

I don't have to copy and paste URLs to share or favourite things now so it's a lot easier for me to see and share things from users that this instance hasn't federated with.

I can just do it from the instance page I'm looking at if I'm looking at it from another domain's URL (or the original source).

Love that.

https://tootski.dev/

Hi @kentbrew you've opened my eyes to the existence of #tootski

I may have to give this a go! :D

Just shipped Tootski 0.0.3, which adds a Use Tootski button for replies; click to open the post in a new tab on your server, all filled in and ready to go.

Firefox landed instantly; Chrome is under review.

#tootski #webextensions

I love the smell of a panicky redeploy in the morning....

Removed the hashtag reminder from Tootski, which was causing an annoying front-end crash after posting a DM. Look for 0.0.2 in your Firefox shortly; Chrome to follow.

Keep an eye on https://tootski.dev for more thrashing about!

#tootski

Don't mind me, just setting up my #tootski.

https://tootski.dev/

Don't mind me, just setting up my #tootski.

https://tootski.dev/

Just put Tootski up on Product Hunt; upvotes appreciated!

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tootski

#tootski #webextensions #shamelessSelfPromotion

Good news, everyone: Tootski is ready to try out on Firefox. Chrome has yet to release; please see the explainer at https://tootski.dev for details.

Thanks to @vincent and @xian for the inspiration!

#tootski #webextensions

That thing where you submit the first version of your browser extension and start waaaaaiting for a reply. #tootski #webextensions

Element.animate() let me add a custom animation from a browser extension on pages whose content security policy made it impossible to add CSS keyframes.

#webdev #webextensions #tootski

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/animate

Now I'm trying to get Tootski to push a copy/paste URL from a foreign instance into my instance's Search box.

Adding ?text=myNewThing to several different Mastodon paths (home, publish, share, my username) will make myNewThing pop up in the main textarea.

I can't figure out if the equivalent parameter name exists for Search. (I've tried ?q=findThis and that's not it.)

Pointers to docs or the repo gratefully accepted!

#mastodev #hacking #tootski

Does anyone know of a software license forbidding its use for cruel purposes? I would like to include one with Tootski.

#licensing #software #tootski

@vincent here is a bit of demo video showing Tootski, a browser extension that helps you boost, follow, and favorite from outside your own Mastodon instance. Does this seem like it would be helpful? (Tootski will of course also feature a button that will let you share a page from where you are, just like the bookmarklet.)

/cc @xian

#tootski #hack #extension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JogLaHshE4

Does anyone know how to deep-link directly into the Mastodon mobile app? Perhaps there's something like a masto:// link prefix with a path to a sharing endpoint I can use?

#tootski #mastodev

Tootski is a bookmarklet that will share the page you're on to your Mastodon instance, including the title, address, and any text you may have selected.

https://gist.github.com/kentbrew/e7def09068834d9d1415824befa8d2dc

#tootski #mastodon #bookmarklet #hacking