If you're on Firefox, install this extension to make it easier to follow people when you go to their instance. It will redirect back to your instance when you click "Follow".
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/mastodon-simplified-federation/
@donncha AFAIK on monday a lot of instances are going to switch to V4.0. And the addon seem to have an unresolved problem with V4.0. And there are no changes in the git for at least five months. https://github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation/issues/77
@Conz ah, that's good to know. Hopefully that's fixed once the new version comes out, but I can count on one hand the number of times I would have needed this extension.
@donncha Would be nice to see a chrome version of this.
@sdenike I wonder if it a Tampermonkey JS script could do something similar? That would be cross-platform.
@donncha Seems like that would work, though that is out of my wheelhouse code-wise. But if someone made it I would certainly install it.
@donncha Sadly it doesn't work with the Mastodon 4 way of doing things.
Hopefully the addon gets an update soon!