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Re:From GNU social to Mastodon by bumholio on Sunday August 26, 2018 @09:18PM (#17848849)
Can't really figure it out. I try to login and put mastodon.social in the Add instance field, but I get an error:

> Error: undefined. Is this a valid Mastodon instance? Is a browser extension blocking the request?

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Re:From GNU social to Mastodon by callahad on Sunday August 26, 2018 @10:30PM (#17849109)
You'll see that error if the Service Worker failed to register. Check your browser console?
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Re:From GNU social to Mastodon by bumholio on Monday August 27, 2018 @03:46AM (#17850032)
I think I've cracked it: it does not work in Firefox Private mode.
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Re:From GNU social to Mastodon by nolanl on Monday August 27, 2018 @09:59AM (#17851501)
Author of Pinafore here. Yes, ironically for an app and userbase that is so focused on privacy, things like private browsing, Privacy Badger, adblockers, etc. can cause compat issues with Pinafore.

Interestingly, the reason is (as I discovered) that most of these tools consider cross-origin requests as a signal of a third-party tracker or ad, and therefore block it. Pinafore works by talking directly to the instance's API, and so the instance itself is suspected to be a third-party tracker. ‍️

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