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Hello @apps

I've a big whish. Please add the possibility to follow a single person from another instance (which is potentially blocked by my instance), via the timeline feature.

It's possible to follow a complete Mastodon instance with #fedilab, but it would be nice to follow only a single account (like @potus@threads.net), because following @threads.net makes no sense (for me).

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in reply to Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)

Ji Fu
Ji Fu
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Yeah, what your saying doesn't make any sense. Its the be equivalent of asking Outlook to let you get emails from yourmom@pornhub.cum even though you're compony IT blocks all email from pornhub on the server side.
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Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)
Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)
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@Fu

I'm sure, @apps knows what I mean. The functionality in Fedilab bypass the AP protocol and uses the API access to request the profile timeline directly (like with other instance TL access).

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in reply to Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)

Fedilab Apps
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@Fu
Yes, it's possible to use the public API to display messages.
It can be interesting when you want to follow and sometimes quote (share) messages.

That said, it's just a helper because if you add ".rss" to the end of the profile URL of an account, you can follow accounts with your RSS feed reader.

Example: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps.rss

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Ji Fu
Ji Fu
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that's pretty cool. @beandev I apologize for thinking you were dumb, but it did help me learn something
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