Substitoot — improved Mastodon federation

Loads missing replies to boosted toots directly from the source server.

What is Substitoot — improved Mastodon federation?

Substitoot - a transparent toot fetcher is a Chrome extension that enables users to load missing replies to boosted toots directly from the source server. It allows users to see all the replies to any post, interact with remote posts, and view up-to-date boost/favorite counts on posts.

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By: Kludge Guru

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Users: 115 ▼ -5

Rating: 5.00 (4)

Version: 0.7.2.0 (Last updated: 2024-02-14)

Creation date: 2023-04-25

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
scripting

Size: 93.93K

Email: da*****@very.lv

Ranking

# 67854 ▼ 1194

Other rankings

#6121 in Social Networking ▼ 22 #33 in improve keyword 35 ▲ 2 #217 in server keyword 52 ▼ 8 #280 in home keyword 25 ▲ 6

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Substitoot (v0.7.2.0)

5.00

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Extension summary

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Mastodon often fails to show up-to-date context and information on posts from remote instances. This addon does that properly.

• See all the replies to any post on your home instance. Local and remote replies are now loaded in parallel so there is no extra delay. • Interact with all the remote posts as normal. They will be fetched to your instance as needed. • See the actual latest 20 posts in any user's profile. • See up-to-date boost/favorite counts on posts.

It should work reliably on mainline Mastodon versions 4.0 and up, your mileage may vary for older instances or forks.

Make sure to open the addon settings and type in the instances it should be active on!

It can fetch statuses and contexts from Akkoma/Pleroma and most Misskey/FireFish/Sharkey/IceShrimp/etc instances, better compatibility is a work in progress.

However, it can only run on Mastodon as a home server, and has been tested to work on vanilla and Glitch editions on current development version (4.3.0).

User reviews

Very much needed, for fetching missing toot interactions, especially if you're on a small instance.

Alexandru Nedelcu (Alex), 2024-08-19

Alexa Breadly, 2024-05-28

Taufik Hidayat, 2024-02-22

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Substitoot — improved Mastodon federation does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Substitoot — improved Mastodon federation is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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