Toby Evans@aotearoa_ben The spinoff still doesn't have a mastodon share link?
Cmon man, asleep at the wheel 😜
Ben Gracewood 🚲🇳🇿@tobz is that a thing? I do wonder how we could do embeds and a share link 🤔
@aotearoa_ben No idea actually.
you'd have to enter your instance address right? Might be a bit clunky.
you'd have to enter your instance address right? Might be a bit clunky.
Lea de Groot@tobz @aotearoa_ben I think it would have to be a widget that opened a little form that asked for your instance.
It’s been so long since I used a retweet button - how did they work? Was it one click and done, or did you click through to Twitter and log in? Twitter was single instance software, so I suppose you logged in on first use of their widget and then you were logged in for ages…
Zeborah@Leadegroot I've seen a couple of implementations - this describes one: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/create-a-share-to-mastodon-button-for-wordpress/
If there was a gateway that every site used, then it'd remember you and you'd rarely be asked for the instance name. But that goes against the decentralised nature of Mastodon, so I think clunkiness is somewhat inherent.
Create a "Share To Mastodon" Button for WordPress
Everyone is decamping from Twitter to Mastodon! The great thing about the Federated Internet (hereafter the "Fediverse") is that it is distributed. The bad thing is… it is distributed! What do I mean by that? Here's an example of the problems with decentralised systems. If I want to create a link on a website which will share text to Twitter, I just create a URl which points to: twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com The same is broadly true of any centralised system. S…