Ancestors

Written by Kiki on 2025-01-11 at 10:37

I wonder if it's possible to use a fedi/mastodon account as some kind of access control for an external website, so that someone can only see the content if they follow a specific fedi account... in a more seamless way than just... idk, making something require a password and posting the link and password in a followers-only post on that account?

Like, something that can't just be forwarded to anyone (yeah I know you could still make screenshots, but you can do that on fedi too).

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Toot

Written by Kiki on 2025-01-11 at 10:48

For a naive approach, I guess it would need to check for cookies from any fedi accounts the reader is logged into, and then check if any of those accounts follows my account...

But that sounds kinda impossible, because I would be very surprised if I could just check for cookies that belong to an unknown number of different websites... it could maybe work if all my followers were on the same instance, but that's very much missing the point of the whole "federation" thing 🙃

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Descendants

Written by Kiki on 2025-01-11 at 10:56

If you're wondering "why not just post the content directly on the fedi account in question?"... well that's what I've been doing so far, but that instance is going to shut down, and I would like to archive some of my old posts in a way that makes them only visible to anyone then following the new account I'll move to, but not to any random person who just happened to guess the URL.

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