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Fedi.Tips

Substitoot is a free open source add-on for web browsers which automatically fetches complete Mastodon threads from the original server. This is useful if you think some replies are missing due to federation issues.

➡️ Substitoot for Firefox (also works on Firefox for Android): addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firef

➡️ Substitoot for Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/deta

➡️ Substitoot's source code: github.com/virtulis/substitoot

Would be nice to know people's opinions and experiences about this add-on 🤔

(via @manu)

7 May at 19:30 | Open on social.growyourown.services
37 comments
Çağan Mert İŞLEK

@FediTips @manu Will the best Android client (@moshidon) or the best PWA client (@elk) plan to have something like that?

7 May at 19:49 | Open on activitypub-provider.hereus.net
🍞🐱

@FediTips Idk about this extension (that I'll try right away), but it make me think about @phanpy that have a very similar feature and it's quite useful actually

7 May at 19:57 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Octavia con Amore

@breadly @FediTips @phanpy wait, phanpy has that feature? I use phanpy as my main fedi interface for my PC, but I had no clue :zerotwo_laugh:

7 May at 22:17 | Open on cutie.city
🍞🐱

@OctaviaConAmore @FediTips @phanpy Yeah, It's not in the options but it's right there, when you open any remote post :blob_cat:
7 May at 22:42 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Octavia con Amore

@breadly @FediTips @phanpy ooooooh, that button! I'd gone blind to it after using it a few times a few months ago :blobfox_sweat: thanks for reminding me~ :espeon_love:

7 May at 22:46 | Open on cutie.city
molly in missouri

@FediTips @manu i am curious if it is intended to override protections enacted against abusive / negligent servers? Or to make it easier for Facebook or Twitter corps to inundate us all with their spam and scams and ads?

7 May at 20:30 | Open on kolektiva.social
Manu

@whatzaname @FediTips Basically, it's just using the search engine of your instance to import missing replies (from ones that no one from your instance follows).
The moderation of your instance still applies.

7 May at 20:40 | Open on pouet.fedi.quebec
molly in missouri

@manu @FediTips ooh, thank you. Then, yup. It would make following interesting conversations so much easier!

7 May at 20:41 | Open on kolektiva.social
Fedi.Tips

@manu @whatzaname

Yeah, it's just intended to fill in posts missing from threads which aren't visible from your server yet.

Usually this isn't because of any blocks but simply because your server hasn't noticed their account yet. More info at:

fedi.tips/which-posts-and-acco

7 May at 20:42 | Open on social.growyourown.services
morph

@FediTips It works great for me with Firefox on desktop. It also works with android mobile Firefox. Which installed as PWA is really an option.

7 May at 20:40 | Open on morphnet.de
mirabilos
Manu
mirabilos

@manu @FediTips ah ok, probably should be mentioned.

(I can’t personally imagine ever using that though…)

7 May at 21:52 | Open on toot.mirbsd.org
Shanie

@mirabilos The client is "The web browser".

8 May at 0:22 | Open on mastodon.tails.ch
mirabilos
Shanie

@mirabilos :blobCat_shrug: Thanks for explaining your definition of “client” so someone could help.

8 May at 4:29 | Open on mastodon.tails.ch
mirabilos

@shanie it’s not "my" definition. Client is well-defined, in this context it’s client for mstdn-compatible c2s API.

Which, in the context of a webbrowser (which is merely an HTTP client), would be a client-side application running in the webbrowser. There’s more than one, you know.

8 May at 13:53 | Open on toot.mirbsd.org
Shanie

@mirabilos So, like, are you asking what browsers this supports? And does the OP not answer what browsers this is an extension for or something? You’re wording is in a way which is making this way too difficult to answer.

8 May at 15:27 | Open on mastodon.tails.ch
mirabilos

@shanie no, which clients, not which browsers, because I use Semaphore as client

8 May at 15:38 | Open on toot.mirbsd.org
Shanie

@mirabilos "Only Mastodon is supported as the home instance." via the GitHub.

As far as where it can fetch from, "It can fetch statuses and contexts from Akkoma/Pleroma and most Misskey/FireFish/Sharkey/IceShrimp/etc instances, better compatibility is a work in progress."

8 May at 18:31 | Open on mastodon.tails.ch
mirabilos

@shanie neither of these is an answer to my question. sigh…

8 May at 21:03 | Open on toot.mirbsd.org
Shanie

@mirabilos sounds like you’ll just have to try it. :catto_blush:

8 May at 21:04 | Open on mastodon.tails.ch
Sally Strange

@FediTips @manu I'm gonna try the firefox extension tomorrow

7 May at 22:20 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Draconic NEO

@FediTips @manu
This is a really good extension but I would be concerned about using it on very small instances as it could cause a lot of data to appear in the instance. It's probably fine since most data is text and text is relatively small, but still...

7 May at 22:53 | Open on pawb.fun
Shanie

@FediTips @manu I've used this add-on for a long time and it's a REQUIREMENT for Mastodon on the web, full stop. Without it, you will never have the full context of a conversation as a small instance user.

Again, a REQUIREMENT. ⚠️

8 May at 0:21 | Open on mastodon.tails.ch
normand

@FediTips @manu

Would be nice to know people's opinions

Well, would be nice if it worked for more software than only Mastodon.

8 May at 3:21 | Open on social.gemnoc.ca
Voxel

@FediTips I've been using this extension for quite some time and it has functioned flawlessly so far. The UI is basic (no affect on it's effectiveness) and I've found no bugs in its functionality. It's quite nice, with the exception of the fact that it transmit your IP address and possibly other information to the instance of the poster.

8 May at 6:31 | Open on infosec.exchange
Nuekaze
SadmanX
Dan

@FediTips i've been using this since i saw this toot and it works great!

«however», it seems to basically disable user blocking. looking at the notes, this is a known issue. i was very confused that i was seeing multiple accounts i thought i'd blocked some time ago in replies and shrugged it off until I thought of disabling the extension and saw a return to expected behavior.

this makes it unusable for me and, i suspect, others.

once this is fixed, i'd love to reinstall the extension as well as fund it. this fixes many of the significant problems with the fedi.

thank you Fedi.Tips for mentioning it and the dev for making it, even if it never gets any further development, i really enjoyed my time with it.

@FediTips i've been using this since i saw this toot and it works great!

«however», it seems to basically disable user blocking. looking at the notes, this is a known issue. i was very confused that i was seeing multiple accounts i thought i'd blocked some time ago in replies and shrugged it off until I thought of disabling the extension and saw a return to expected behavior.

19 May at 5:15 | Open on infosec.exchange
Fedi.Tips

@dko

Ahh... that's quite a large problem indeed. Thank you for bringing this up, hopefully the developer fixes it!

By the way, just to be clear, I didn't make this, I was just passing on info about it.

19 May at 5:21 | Open on social.growyourown.services
Dan

@FediTips Yup, I gotcha! I'll make the post clearer.

19 May at 5:26 | Open on infosec.exchange
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