# Remote Instance Actions

![](https://hollymcfarland.com/remote_instance_actions/ria.png)

*Quickly suspend or silence remote instances from the Mastodon frontend*

### What is this?

A userscript to make blocking remote instances on Mastodon a less tedious and time-consuming task.

### How do I install it?

First, install Tampermonkey. Then, visit the [installation website](https://hollymcfarland.com/remote_instance_actions).

### Why have a whole installation website for a userscript?

It fills in the `@match` directives for whatever instances are relevant to the user, using GET parameters so Tampermonkey's update functionality will continue to work.

### Why is there PHP in a .user.js file?

For the same reason as the last question. That's how the `@match` directives are filled in with the GET parameters. The file has to have the .user.js extension so that Tampermonkey will prompt the user to install it, which means I had to go into the PHP configuration files and allow it to execute .js files as PHP. It's a little cursed but it does work.

## TODO

- ~~Figure out why it doesn't work on Firefox~~
	- ~~It's because the `@run-at context-menu` header only works in Chrome based browsers. The context menu item *appears* in Firefox but doesn't do anything. Find a workaraound~~
		- It's actually because of something extremely different and much, much weirder. `@run-at context-menu` actually does exist in Firefox now, but there's a bizarre CSP enforcement bug that causes Firefox issues. Details on the installation page
- ~~Don't rely on parsing human-readable text, won't work in other languages~~
	- There's no good API or anything for this, going to need to parse the document structure
	- Done