{"id":37755,"date":"2022-11-29T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37755"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:12:08","slug":"masto-redirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/29\/masto-redirect\/","title":{"rendered":"Masto-Redirect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/ios\/masto-redirect-a-mastodon-shortcut-to-redirect-profiles-and-posts-to-your-own-instance\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/ios\/masto-redirect-a-mastodon-shortcut-to-redirect-profiles-and-posts-to-your-own-instance\/\"><p>At this point, you may be wondering: if someone has an account on a different instance, or posted something I want to reply to, how can I do this from my account on a separate Mastodon instance?<\/p><p>This is where my friend Jason Snell comes in: a few days ago, he <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@jsnell\/109383535317685037\">shared a post<\/a> in which he noted that the default method for redirecting a post or profile from another Mastodon instance back to yours is, well, <em>somewhat<\/em> convoluted. If you come across a profile or post from a different Mastodon server, you have to copy its original URL, go to your instance, manually paste it into the search box, find the result you&rsquo;re looking for, and only <em>then<\/em> you can interact with it. That works, but it&rsquo;s not intuitive, and I figured I could improve this aspect of the Mastodon experience with a shortcut.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci: At this point, you may be wondering: if someone has an account on a different instance, or posted something I want to reply to, how can I do this from my account on a separate Mastodon instance?This is where my friend Jason Snell comes in: a few days ago, he shared a post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-11-29T21:12:10Z","apple_news_api_id":"01cf0d52-04c4-45af-b749-e9a19878f216","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-11-29T21:12:10Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAc8NUgTERa-3SemhmHjyFg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2185,30,2223,1718,1686,96],"class_list":["post-37755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-mastodon","tag-shortcuts","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37756,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37755\/revisions\/37756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}