Add PeerTube support

[jeena]

Background

This extension solves the problem for Mastodon, the same problem we have for PeerTube too.

Proposed solution

Extend it with support for PeerTube.

Alternatives

I tried to fork it and to rewrite it but once I did I realized that it's very big and I would need to understand a lot of details to be able to do it so after two days of trying I gave up for now.

Another alternative would be to rewrite it into a framework with plugin support so people could write simple plugins to make it work with other software like PixelFed, Lemmy, PeerTube, /kbin and all other fediverse apps which have similar problems.

Additional context

[rugk]

The thing is we have a dropdown again, no tab opening, so it technically needs a content script just like new Mastodon.

the abo button:

the comment field click triggers this:

(from https://video.blender.org/)

• Also it would be possible to trigger directly on the clicks into the comment box + abo button (but in case of the latter that would break RSS abo functionality as you basically cannot click the button then 🙈 )
• Alternatively, we have a problem... 🤔

So some UX thoughts need to be done here in any case.

[rugk]

I tried to fork it and to rewrite it but once I did I realized that it's very big and I would need to understand a lot of details to be able to do it so after two days of trying I gave up for now.

Ah in any case thanks for trying to contribute. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Basically you may need to register a new type and handler for your Fediverse site and add it here to the others:

mastodon-simplified-federation/src/background/modules/AutoRemoteFollow.js

Line 31 in 1c54aec

const FEDIVERSE_MODULE = Object.freeze({

That detect handler does all the detection work and is called automatically, just use the existing ones as a reference:
https://github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation/blob/main/src/background/modules/Detect/Friendica.js

That, however, is only for catching URL redirections. Now the tricky part is just ahead…

The tricky part is then to have a content script like https://github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation/blob/main/src/content_script/mastodonInject.js that intercepts the button clicks or whatever you actually want.
You then need to add this to be injected into each tab here:

mastodon-simplified-federation/src/background/modules/AutoRemoteFollow.js

Line 157 in 1c54aec

async function onTabUpdate(tabId, changeInfo) {

The thing is to make sure you cause no false-positives (properly detect the website is an instance of the service) striking a balance between it being constrained enough like that, but also being flexible enough so that a website/slightly-modified or differently configured instance or an instance that may be running a more recent/upgraded software version still works. Sounds complicated but well, you'll see that and if there happens to be a breaking change in the Fediverse software then well… this add-on needs to be fixed again and upgraded.

The aim of all that content script currently just is to trigger opening a window/popup so the URL catching/detection you implemented earlier triggers. See here e.g.:

mastodon-simplified-federation/src/content_script/mastodonInject.js

Line 37 in 1c54aec

window.open(`/interact/${tootId}`, "_blank");

See #86 when that changes. But for now, this is the basic way.

[rugk]

As that is a good basic explanation to get started, I just dumped it to https://github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation/wiki/Development, though GitHub does not do inline code citations there unfortunately.