Substitoot

A transparent toot fetcher for Mastodon. Loads missing replies to boosted toots in your feed directly from the source server. Make sure you set your home instance(s) in preferences to start using this!

Substitoot: Transparent Toot Fetcher for Mastodon

Substitoot is a Firefox add-on called Substitoot that loads missing replies to boosted toots in your feed directly from the source server. It allows you to see all the replies to any post on your home instance, interact with remote posts as normal, and view up-to-date boost/favorite counts on posts.
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Add-on stats

By: virtulis
Users: 203
10
Rating: 5.00
(8)
Version: 0.7.2.0 (Last updated: 2024-02-14)
Creation date: 2023-03-12
Weekly download count: 3
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • scripting
Size: 98.61K
URLs: Website

Ranking

# 7,167 ▲ 168
Other rankings
#60 in reply keyword 13 ▼ 2 #92 in boost keyword 33 #192 in server keyword 52 ▲ 5 #221 in loading keyword 20 ▲ 6 #235 in upgrade keyword 3 ▲ 3

Other platforms

Substitoot — improved Mastodon federation (v0.7.2.0)
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Not available on Android
Not available on Edge
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Add-on summary

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Mastodon often fails to show up-to-date context and information on posts from remote instances. This addon does that properly.

  • See all the replies to any post on your home instance. Local and remote replies are now loaded in parallel, so there is no extra delay.
  • Interact with all the remote posts as normal. They will be fetched to your instance as needed.
  • See up-to-date boost/favorite counts on posts.
  • See the actual last 20 posts in any user's profile (page refresh may be needed).
It should work reliably on mainline Mastodon versions 4.0 and up, your mileage may vary for older instances or forks.

Missing features

  • The extension currently does not account for personal block lists.
  • Only Mastodon is supported as the home instance.
Make sure to open the addon settings and type in the instances it should be active on!

It doesn't seem to do anything! Please check that you have entered the instance domain name in the extension settings, and that it doesn't complain about permissions. If upgrading, you might need to delete the extension completely, restart the browser and install again. If nothing helps, please report a bug. Thanks!

Does this support servers other than Mastodon? It can fetch statuses and contexts from Akkoma/Pleroma and Misskey/FireFish/Sharkey/IceShrimp/etc.

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User reviews

by loops, 2024-11-29
I will help for small instances, so if you on a small mastodon instance it will help you to see more post.
by alien, 2024-10-10
by Nincodedo, 2024-05-12
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Substitoot does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Substitoot has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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