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One year of StreetPass today!! Here's an abridged list of everything that's gone down

- Initial Chrome-only spaghetti code extension
- 🦊 Firefox
- Beautiful new icon by @andycarolan
- 🧭 Safari
- Export data
- Open profiles in your own Mastodon instance
- Updated the mastodon codebase itself to start returning avatars in webfinger responses
- Display usernames & avatars
- Editing features: Reset & Hide functionality

Available at streetpass.social ❤️

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Things I'm really happy about:

- Commitment to a local-only architecture. StreetPass has no centralized servers at all, everything just runs in your browser. Not only is this the ONLY way to securely build a tool like this, but it's created some healthy product constraints that makes working on this feel like a fun & bite-sized puzzle rather than a huge corporate SASS product with multiple points of failure. I think it better fits the overall spirit of the Fediverse as well

- Diverse userbase. I really love seeing non-technical people trying out StreetPass. This is the first time I've ever really “tried”building an indie consumer product, and seeing it reach an audience outside of the standard techbro internet scene has been super rewarding.

Some plans moving forward

- Another marketing push. Create some better-designed app store product photos.
- Find some time to *really* research what would need to go down for iOS support. I think it will be a lot… I have some big ideas for how this could be done in a great way.
- Better UX for showing what profiles are on your currently active tab. Something like the attached image
- Better import/export tools. Exporting to the .csv format that mastodon uses for bulk following

One final thing: I'm like 90% sure StreetPass is the _only_ open source browser extension that targets Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. If you ever wanna build a browser extension with a modern tech stack that supports things like TypeScript & React, I'm confident that building off the StreetPass codebase is a good place to start!

github.com/tvler/streetpass

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@tvler ah, cool! Was just wondering about iOS Safari support (and other mobile browsers)

@tvler Since Musk killed free :twitter: api, we lost MovetoDon and the other apps that scanned your profile for friends etc.

I love how StreetPass finds Mastodon users on various web pages.

I still am read-only on Twitter. Unfortunately, lots of folks are still active there.

It would be great if StreePass would on some websites, like Twitter, when someone is identified in one of the user profiles, would make the follow button be a Mastodon follow on the user's home instance.

@tvler
Because you're a browser extension, you can also make twitter API calls using the user's session 😂 to fetch other data to facilitate "syncing" their lists and followers/followings.

@tvler @andycarolan I love using StreetPass! While i mainly run into the corporate mastodon accounts, its neat running into a blog post or open spurce project and the maintainers account popup!

Definitly one of my favorite extensions!

@tvler I don't use it as much as I should but it's installed in all Browsers and I love it. The idea is extremely simple but powerful.

And I love your way to develop it with new standards in HTML and CSS. Keep the good work going!

@tvler Bravo! It’s an extension that gets used every single day.

@tvler Tried to find a donation link, but it seems you're good at hiding it. Any way, I can support the project?

@tvler I tried using the extension on my own sites, but didn't have any results pop up. Both of my sites (docpop.org and doctorpopular.com) are rel=me in my Mastodon.social profile. I'm using StreetPass in Chrome and seeing results show up for other sites.

Any thoughts on what might be happening or if I need to change anything on my side? Thanks.