Some Mastodon servers allow themselves to be wrapped with the cuckoo.social to give a G+ (Google Plus) like user interface
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/01
[Wayback/Archive] Cuckoo+ is a wrapper around Mastodon that makes the UI look like Google+ (G+ / Google Plus).
It is open source at [Wayback/Archive] NanaMorse/Cuckoo.Plus: A GooglePlus-Like third-party web client for mastodon. with hardly any updates like lik because the author is not active on Mastodon any more according to [Wayback/Archive] Is dead the repo ? · Issue #237 · NanaMorse/Cuckoo.Plus (via [Wayback/Archive] Issues · NanaMorse/Cuckoo.Plus)
Note that in some Mastodon instances it fails because of CORS issues:
I might investigate running a private Mastodon instance just to try this out later. For that, I will likely need to dig a bit deeper into this:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@jwildeboer @MariThomas88 Failed: Access to
XMLHttpRequestat ‘https://mastodon.social/@wiert/api/v1/custom_emojis‘ from origin ‘https://cuckoo.social‘ has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn’t pass access control check: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource.” / Twitter - [Wayback/Archive] javascript – CORS: response to preflight request doesn’t pass access control check – How to solve it on localhost? – Stack Overflow
- [Wayback/Archive] Set up nginx to allow cross-domain request for subdomain – Stack Overflow
- [Wayback/Archive] A Guide to Solving Those Mystifying CORS Issues
Via [Wayback/Archive] 😷 Jan Wildeboer (@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net) – social.wildeboer.net.
–jeroen
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