Thinking through a “share with Mastodon” button that anyone could embed on a website. It’s a harder problem than a “share with Twitter” button, because

This is a good idea. It’d be neat to get fediverse services, including lemmy, supporting this. We could make cross site interactions so much easier.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    While I think a custom URI protocol would make Mastodon infinitely easier to use (it was implemented but they removed it [1]). Using meta tags would likely run into web security frameworks (CSP/CORS/etc.) which makes implementation rather annoying.

    However, for the share API, I think implementing Web Share would be a better solution. An installed PWA can register a share target and you end up being able to share content through the OS native share dialog. This way you can share content through the native Mastodon/Lemmy/Pleroma app on your phone or on desktop.

    None of these solutions are of much use until the people responsible for the server software start implementing any of this. I hope this changes soon, but I’m not holding my breath.

    [1]: Every time you opened a Mastodon page, the page popped up a protocol handler prompt, and that was annoying. That’s the reason Mastodon removed the feature all together and why they’re extremely hesitant to implement it again.