Comment on Is there a Mastodon android app that has the option to open mastodon instances in the app

ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, you would have to maintain a list of all Mastodon instance domain names, and this list would need 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…

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it doesn’t report itself as mastodon in the header or something? That would have been useful.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It can’t query this info externally occasionally…?

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. It must be in the app already. It’s for security reasons.

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  • GreatDong3000@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe some browser extension for like firefox mobile?

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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…

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      • GreatDong3000@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s a good idea

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