 I came across a neat browser extension today. It looks for "rel=me" links pointing to mastodon profiles, and puts it in a little list for you to review. In other words, you visit a website, and if tells you if there are any mastodon accounts associated to the website. 46 comments
  @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place been using streetpass for a while, and its legit super helpful! Think the dev is currently working on upgrading it to better show the profiles  @aeva Has anyone checked out the code for privacy? Seems like it would need access to every page you visit... @aeva Ok great - thank you! It also looks like it uses a sane way to check for DOM changes so shouldn't be a perfomance hog @aeva @arichtman all data is stored locally and no data/analytics is collected at all. check out the source code here! https://github.com/tvler/streetpass @arichtman That is unavoidable given the WebExtension API. I'm a -bit- more concerned that it would contact every website linked with rel="me", unless it comes from a short list of known services that don't implement webfinger. @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place I read this post 3 times over 4 hours before I remembered what StreetPass was and now I feel old  @JohnLoader6 it's an invisible tag you can put on a link that says "this is also me", so you can link your website and Mastodon profile and so on, and then things like search engines, and this extension, and the Mastodon "verified links" feature can understand that both pages in some sense represent the same real-world person and do… whatever they do with that information @JohnLoader6 you need to go to your mastodon settings (in your browser, not inside an app), then profile, and you’ll see a section titled “verification”.  @JohnLoader6 @aeva From one old duffer to another, hopefully this clarifies it a bit: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/11/30/how-to-verify-site-ownership-on-mastodon-profiles/ @zyz @aeva hey! I made a privacy page as part of my work for porting to safari and will update the homepage with the link soon! https://streetpass.social/privacy  @tvler I've often dreamed of something a bit similar that would discover microformats like h-card, h-event, as well as document alternates that happen to be stuff like ics, vcard, and offer to “add event to calendar" etc, so sites can more easily offer data in to PIM apps and the likes. Do you know, can a Web Extension sniff HTTP “Link:” headers for stuff like that? I feel sure it could work with in-document <link>, <a>, and microformats markup right? @tvler Oh I mean just looking at the current document open in the browser tab. What markup it contains, what Link headers it was delivered with. I wouldn't expect it to cause any more traffic?  @JasonPester this is what I use to verify that my outgoing links are set up correctly: https://xavd.id/blog/post/mastodon-verification-and-you/#verifying-your-html @xavdid Thanks, Dave. I just plugged your code into Chromium's Dev Tools & it output legitimate links. I don't know what the problem is at this point except possibly that I still have sites without secure certificates - I noticed a Mastodon code request to enforce https in URLs for verification. I'm unsure if this request made it into development & release. My other instances on Mastodon had no problem with this when I initially verified them back in Nov '22. I place my tags in the HTML header. @JasonPester ah yeah, hard to say. I know verification checks happen when you save your profile, so a check can fail if the server is especially busy when you hit "save". If the output looks right (and it seems to), maybe try re-saving your profile to force a re-check? @xavdid I've been doing that too. This appears to be one of those annoying gremlins... lol. Thanks for your help, Dave! 👍 If I figure it out, I'll give you a ping.  @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place I've seen a few things about it, partially due to me searching #StreetPass (for the feature inside the Nintendo 3DS, no idea if that inspired the name for this, if so it's super cool)   |
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@aeva This seems really neat. Gonna try it out.