Hey fediverse, I made a fediverse sharing button you can add to your website or a blog!
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Hey fediverse, I made a fediverse sharing button you can add to your website or a blog!
https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-sharing-button/
#fediverse #FediverseSharingButton #webdev #WebDesign #websites #SocialMedia
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@stefan ooo fun!
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@chris Thank you, and thank you for sharing it!
There's a few similar projects (and I link to them in the GitHub repo), but it never hurts to try a different approach. Gives people more choices!
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@stefan I just put it on the top of my Open Letter. Seems to be appropriate
And it works as advertised!
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@chris Nice!
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@stefan Super cool! And now I get it, I need to input the Mastodon server because there is no way of knowing where my accounts is on.
Maybe there's a nice way to make it more intuitive to users, e.g. a drop down of the top n most popular servers with an option for a different one?
I guess there is no good way of remembering my choice between different domains?
And I guess we can't launch mobile clients directly because they can't add a specific domain handler?
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@djh Thank you!
Yes, I've been thinking about some kind of an autocomplete, that would definitely be helpful.
Interesting thought on keeping track of multiple past domains used, let me give that some thought.
Thank you for trying this out, and for your feedback!
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@djh And to add, yes, I think apps just go by domain names, and there is no official protocol handler for fediverse, unfortunately. But I will definitely add this once there is one!
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@stefan Let me see if I get this right: the fediverse could standardize a scheme (e.g. fediverse://..) and then on iOS/Android all apps would need to add handlers for these schemes.
Then we could create these fediverse links when we detect a mobile device or even use something like
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Share_API
Do I get this right?
Is there any work done on standardization like this?
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@djh Yes, in a nutshell!
And to answer your second question, I'm not actually too sure.
Here's a few places where this idea has been discussed:
- https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/web-based-protocol-handlers-for-activitypub-resources/
- https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/1Adding a few tags for visibility to see if anyone has a more current answer, I would also love to know.