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I think they missed the chance of building this _into_ the browser and having posts/threads created for each page you visit. Then you could comment directly on the content you see in the browser, similar to StumbleUpon back in the day.

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   > goosesanta 15 hours ago [dead] | parent | prev | next [–]
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   > Gab already did that with Dissenter but Google banned them.

This is a fact so I do not see why this post has been downvoted to death - other than by the fact that the down-voters do not like Gab. That dislike does not make this statement less true, the 'Dissenter' browser extension did add just this functionality and it was banned (removed from the "store" and blacklisted in the browser) by both Google as well as Mozilla [1] . Gab reacted to this by creating yet another browser (based on Brave with the dissenter extension installed and the 'wallet' and crypto stuff removed).

Here's an idea: create an extension like 'dissenter' with a configurable Activitypub server so the user can point it at whatever Mastodon/Pleroma/Friendica/etc. server they want. That way the aspiring revolutionaries can point it at their favourite Mastodon instance, free-speech-absolutists can point it at theirs, [A-Z]+-activists can choose their favourites and so forth.

[1] https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-removal-of-the-dissenter...

What Mastodon really needs from browsers is some way of communicating what is your instance, so that features like "Follow" button on other servers just work instead of "new hostname, who dis?".

Gab already did that with Dissenter but Google banned them.

I miss stumbleupon

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