Given how quickly Beehaw reacted to external users, it’s becoming more important for users to know “where” they are engaging with content, meaning “where the content was federate in from”.
Lemmy mostly has this handled in the UI but kbin still needs some time. Additionally, while the QOL plugin does show domain suffixes it’s not a super strong reminder that you are engaging with federated users/comments/articles. This script colorizes based on “threat level” or strictness of the moderators of the federated server.
compatible with the excellent QOL updates tampermonkey script by https://kbin.social/u/SirPsychoMantis, as well as the other 2 scripts I’ve previously written
I wrote one for Lemmy as well https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468763-lemmy-federation-awareness
this one also shows a distinction for kbin users, which I thought would be helpful for Lemmy users because the functionality of how the sites work is just different enough that not realizing someone you’re replying to is using a different platform can and has been causing all kinds of confusion.