2025-08-07 16:59 UTC
@zanchey@aus.social to read, like, and share this toot, it was also simple.
Someone sent this link to me via iMessage. The link opened in my default web browser, where I was able to enjoy it and have a laugh with my partner.
I want to share this with others, I thought! Excellent, this is on Mastodon! I have a Mastodon account, but not on this server. This server is aus.social, but I’m on infosec.exchange. You see, Mastodon is decentralized for some reason I can’t readily explain. I can still like and reshare (boost? I forgot what it is called) toots from other servers, but not if I’m at the link of a server where I don’t have an account.
So I copied the link to the clipboard and went in search of my Mastodon client, which is called Ice Cubes for some reason. I opened up search, pasted the link and searched for it, which brought up the same toot I had open in my web browser, which doesn’t open in my Mastodon client for reasons I don’t fully understand. Now that I had this toot open in my native Mastodon client, where I’m logged in via an account on infosec.exchange, I can now like (star?) and reshare (boost?) this funny toot!
Replies (3)
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2025-08-09 10:48
@sawaba@infosec.exchange @zanchey@aus.social Or you can just press the boost button on the original and then enter your instance name in the pop up dialog.
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@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net 2025-08-13 10:47
@sawaba@infosec.exchange @zanchey@aus.social My excuse for names in mastodon this is that anyone can build a client (I agree Ice cubes doesn't really make sense, but hey ho). There's no excuse with microsoft - don't their departments talk to each other about standards????
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@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net 2025-08-13 16:26
@sawaba@infosec.exchange @zanchey@aus.social Maybe there's something like this for ios: https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/dev.zwander.mastodonredirect