it turns out that the real "blue sky credible exit" was the mastodon account you signed up for in 2023 and then never used because you have to copy and paste a url into a box sometimes and people ask you to have empathy for disabled people

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

it turns out that the real "blue sky credible exit" was the mastodon account you signed up for in 2023 and then never used because you have to copy and paste a url into a box sometimes and people ask you to have empathy for disabled people

[starsider@valenciapa.ws]

@aeva I use this which avoids the need for copying and pasting in 90% of situations. When you try to interact with any post in another mastodon instance it opens up in yours.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mastodon-simplified-federation/

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@starsider
oh nice. Do you know if there is one that “captures” links you come across when browsing your own instance? (As in: a post has a link to another post somewhere in the Fediverse. Normally I have to drag it onto the “Search or paste URL” box within the same page, but it would be nice if I could just click on it and have it loaded in there directly.)

@aeva

[starsider@valenciapa.ws]

@oblomov not that I know of

[gureito@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva my "meaningful interactions per person followed is so, so, so much higher in here 😄

[joshix@fosspri.de]

@oblomov @starsider @aeva I patched my mastodon instance in a hacky way to make that happen, not sure if that could be translated to a browser extension

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@joshix @starsider @aeva I'm guessing some UserJS / Greasemonkey might suffice. I'll see if I can give it a go.

[radmin@limepeeps.perchinup.top]

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place Huh, what is credible exit? I've heard people over on Bluskey talk about it in terms of whether or not that platform is truly decentralized, but I haven't learned yet what it really is ​​

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@radmin mental gymnastics and propaganda. you don't need to have a "credible exit" if your service actually is decentralized

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@radmin it's a conceptual safety blanket that does nothing

[baralheia@dragonchat.org]

@starsider @oblomov the closest thing I'm aware of would be https://streetpass.social/, but that's more for collecting user handles as you browse the web, not collecting links from your timeline.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@baralheia @starsider oh yeah, I have that installed and it's nice seeing how often it lights up, even when the page doesn't have visible links to Fedi profiles. But yeah, doesn't handle the link stuff.