Follow button with Activity Intents

I don’t want to brag but I finally added a follow button to my static jekyll blog. Because it uses Activity Intents, a visitor can remotely follow my fediverse account regardless of where their host server lives as long as their server supports Activity Intents. The good news is that mastodon.social already supports this as it is running the nightly build. It will be included in the next major release (4.6) as mentioned in Trunk & Tidbits, March 2026 so that other Mastodon servers will support it. The code was added to Mastodon in Add support for FEP-3b86 (Activity Intents) (#38120) and it seems there are 2 different values for “rel” a home server may offer to accept a follow: 4.10 Follow Intent and 5.1 Object Intent so my button accepts 2 different values. var rels = ['https://w3id.org/fep/3b86/Follow', 'https://w3id.org/fep/3b86/Object']; Intents are for all activities but it seems there is a tendency for fediverse home servers to support just a subset of activities at the moment.…