[suramya_tomar]

Not sure if I am missing something, but this is something I can do without any extra extensions installed? Out of the 27 accounts I am currently following, 20 are accounts from other Mastodon instances...

I do have to search for the account on my local instance to start following them instead of being able to click follow right there, but that is a minor annoyance

[TobTobXX]

It is solving exactly that minor annoyance you mentioned.

[suramya_tomar]

Ah... fair enough. For me the annoyance is minor enough that I wouldn't be installing an extension that gets access to all the sites that I browse, but I get that for others it might worth it.

From the outside, it seems like an easy problem to solve but with all the multiple domains and the way federation itself works there is no quick/easy fix that doesn't bring other assorted problems into play

[maxerickson]

Right, it appears this extension is aimed at the minor annoyance.

[xvilka]

It will never gain significant popularity with UX failures like this.

[rektide]

This seems reductionist & rejectionist to me. If people have a reason to care, little impedances like this are not going to stop things.

In general this high judgementalism really should have a tiny smidge of humility & respect in it. That lacks. You could improve.

[madeofpalk]

Does Hacker News have 'significant popularity'?

[Gravityloss]

Odd, I can just click follow, on hachyderm.io even if the followee is on mastodon.social. No annoyances.

[iamevn]

I'm betting you're clicking the follow button on the profile at hachyderm.io/@[e-mail] and not mastodon.social/@user