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Paranoid Factoid

@eob @shoq

I don't understand this argument. Are you speaking specifically to mobile browser implementations differing from desktop?

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joeldebruijn

@ParanoidFactoid @eob @shoq
No is a browser thing in general.
If I click a profile on another instance I cant follow because I am not logged in there.

Paranoid Factoid

@joeldebruijn @eob @shoq

Wait. I'm on Mastodon.social. if I load the url:

Https://Fosston.org/joeldebrui

I will not be logged in at Fosston.org and will be unable to follow. Correct?

But if I load:

Https://mastodon.social/@joeld

I will get your profile and I can follow from my home server.

What's the problem?

Éamonn

@ParanoidFactoid @shoq Both mobile and desktop browsers have the same restrictions. In general they store data for each web site separately in a way that makes it hard to write browser-only apps that seamlessly talk to multiple web sites.

Because each Mastodon server's built-in web UI is at a different web site, it is hard to create frictionless user flows that span across different Mastodon servers.

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