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   dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Feb-2026 20:12:06 JST dansup

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@webintents/116028982466167234

   Imagine being able to share your fediverse account on other platforms using this powerful new service that makes it super easy for them to follow you no matter what server they are on, and if they don't have an account yet, we can onboard them by leveraging the vast and community curated data from FediDB + CommunityDB.

   Follow anyone. Any software. Any account. One link or self-hosted html button ✨

   We need better UX and this is a huge step in the right direction.

   Fedi Devs: Let's chat ✨

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Feb-2026 20:55:31 JST dansup

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     • TransitBiker

     @TransitBiker how so? We simply redirect users to their own home server, we don't store or otherwise track anything besides server domains + the software they run.

     When you use this, everything happens in your browser, and we will support native intents to open this in the app of your choosing, without having to lookup your server.

     I'm not sure how privacy would be an issue, please do explain.

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     TransitBiker (transitbiker@urbanists.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Feb-2026 20:55:32 JST TransitBiker

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     @dansup I have serious privacy & ai data scraping concerns with this idea. Also, I’m not on those platforms on purpose.

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Feb-2026 21:18:54 JST dansup

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     • ⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe

     @fishidwardrobe I think you misunderstand the purpose of this.

     The idea is to make it easy to share your account in a way that supports people to follow you from other servers.

     There is no money involved, or any type of monetary restrictions, its simply just an extension of public protocols wrapped up in an easy to use service.

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     ⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe (fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 07-Feb-2026 21:18:56 JST ⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe

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     @dansup i can already follow anyone on the fediverse, thanks — unless the admins here have blocked them, in which case (since this is a well-run server) it was with good reason.

     sounds like another money-making scam to me.

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Feb-2026 21:37:11 JST dansup

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     • ⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe
     • n-gons

     @fishidwardrobe @ngons You don't need to submit any data to us, you can simply just use this.

     We don't track or store any PII, profile data or any user content, we simply redirect users to their own server using the Follow Button profile url.

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     ⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe (fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 07-Feb-2026 21:37:12 JST ⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe

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     • n-gons

     @ngons @dansup i'm sure someone will find a way. the first hit is always free.

     red flags for me:
     - this will let you do [thing you can already do but people are confused about]!
     - just put your data on our one little server here! (exactly what the fediverse is *not*)

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     n-gons (ngons@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 07-Feb-2026 21:37:14 JST n-gons

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     • ⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe

     @fishidwardrobe @dansup who is making money?