I need to release an update to refresh the supported domains soon, but I made an app that does the work of maintaining the giant list of possible domains and helps you set it as the default for all of them.
Not every client is supported, but there are a few options.
This is the best way IMO, and it supports a lot of different apps. I use both the Lemmy and Mastodon versions, and they both work nicely
Thanks. This did the trick. Any chance you'll make Lemmy redirect compatible with Voyager?
Voyager doesn't have a way to send it links.
There is no easy way to implement it at the app level, because apps have no way of knowing whether any given link is a mastodon link or not
Yeah, you would have to maintain a list of all Mastodon instance domain names, and Google requires this list to be baked in at build time of the app, so updating it requires updating the whole app and there's no way to dynamically detect that this link is a Mastodon link.
This isn't to say that it can't be done, Newpipe does this for Invidious/Piped instances, but yeah, it's a good bit of work...
it doesn't report itself as mastodon in the header or something? That would have been useful.
edit: yeah, no. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23939
Maybe some browser extension for like firefox mobile?
What I could theoretically imagine, is that an extension could give it a custom URL scheme, like mastodon://mastodon.social/v1/..., and then the various Mastodon apps could register an intent/open handler for that. But yeah, again, quite a bit of effort.
Alternatively, the apps could offer a secondary Share-action, which tries to open the link instead of creating a post from it...
That's a good idea
It can't query this info externally occasionally...?
No. It must be in the app already. It's for security reasons.
Moshidon
As has been said, this is not easily possible, but a workaround in Fedilab is to copy the link and paste it into the search bar inside the app. So, not super convenient, but at least you'll be logged in and can interact with the post. This might also work with the other apps, I'm not sure...
Mastodon on iOS adds a button to the URL share sheet to open any url within Mastodon, and if it’s an ActivityPub object, will load the post inside Mastodon
Does the Android version have something similar?
What are the chances that you come across a link and it goes to your preferred Mastodon instance?
This is my latest example. [email protected] (https://lemm.ee/post/26313185) I ran across this post in Lemmy and basically got tired of trying to find a workaround that involved a bunch of steps to interact with the toot. I just wish Lemmy redirect worked with Voyager.
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