[Proposal] "Remote Follow" button

[malkoG]

To people who are familiar to ActivityPub services, it's easy to find the bot accounts built upon botkit.
On the other hand, to people who are not familiar to ActivityPub services, it's not.

When trying to follow remote account(including botkit account), the process follows below:

1. They can just search their own instance's search page.
2. Inside the instance's implementation, the instance calls webfinger request in order to fetch the bot account's metadata
3. And redirect to the instance's profile page of the bot account.

Suggested Implementation

1. Click the Follow button
2. After clicking Follow button, prompt alert(modal) need to be displayed.
3. User input their fediverse handle (ex. @johndoe@fediver.se) and Submit
4. From botkit's server side, call webfinger request for the fediverse handle which is from step 3
5. And redirect to remote server's profile page for the botkit account. And Follow

[malkoG]

Reference: https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/src/commit/23a4d5a15f6124cec4d499cb6d3341960605f2f2/lib/pleroma/web/twitter_api/controllers/util_controller.ex#L104-L151

[dodok8]

I'll make this feature.

[dahlia]

Thanks!