on a mastodon-powered website, clicking the "follow" button loads an interaction modal asking for a user@domain input. a secondary option offers to create a local account.

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   infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jun-2025 12:11:18 JST infinite love ⴳ

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   @tchambers if you mean the google doc, i still fail to see how it's "far better ux":

   - what you call "option a" would not work without pre-registration, and would be terrible ux outside of browsers
   - what you call "option b" is basically what mastodon already does, as best as i can tell... although it has issues outside of mastodon [1] [2]
   - what you call "option c" would not work at all, because localStorage is not shared cross-origin

   [1]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26995

   [2]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34908