If you were signed in, then yes. Certain functions require you to be signed in, even on an app. This is because the relationships API requires authentication, especially for users that hide their follow list.
Some people in this community consider Firefox a sell out and might not trust it that much. If they created their own instance, as Vivaldi did, I'd certainly say Hello.
Jamie is on the flagship Mastodon instance if you want his opinion.
But almost all Fedi instances have a web app component already. I'm surprised this is even a question 😕
I've been supportive of PWAs from the start, because app devs sometimes leave out things for personal/other reasons and this results in a broken experience that makes Fedi look bad.
Eric Shields | 🅜assTransitKrow (masstransitkrow@federation.ninetiesmysteri.es)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 05:41:38 JST
Eric Shields | 🅜assTransitKrowI see freelancing as an excuse to cut corners. A boom in freelancing is the result of corporate lobbying at multiple state legislatures (while everyone was distracted with COVID/UKRAINE) to deliberately misclassify workers to deny them fair pay and benefits.
They succeeded in CA and WA, and tried in MA.
I have an account with a freelance site, and many of the listed jobs say that a paycheck could take up to a month to arrive, and force most expenses on prospects with no guarantee they will be hired.
For someone who had recently lost their job, waiting a month for a paycheck is an unacceptable request. No reasonable person would sign up for that. No one. So the idea that 73% are OK with this is bullshit.
I want my slice of the American Dream (homeownership, a nice grill, etc) and that's impossible to do with contract work, especially when it's less than 12 months.
(c) Forbes | story by Edward Seagal | 13dec2022
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You don't need a paid app for that, just an instance with a relay that's turned on. When you subscribe to it, you'll see a stream of all posts from that instance (local and federated, but public).
You can subscribe to as many remote timelines as rate limits allow. By default, most instances have it on. Public relays are a great way to try an instance before signing up for it because you get an idea for how interactions will work.
The Mastodon API simply drops them or forces them to render in a specific way. But a frontend that supplements the Mastodon API with its own can render objects in its own way.
Instance admins can further or loosen those restrictions on their own, which may further affect how messages appear.