Susan The site I write for, like almost every news site from the NYT on down includes a twitter button for sharing.
I'd like to see a mastodon button that anyone can put on their websites to replace the twitter button that is readily available
Laffy@SusanKraemer On my first day here, I tooted the same thing. I begged for news sites to add a Mastodon share button. Now, we have to manually copy/paste every story we want to share.
Matþew Bowles@GottaLaff @SusanKraemer If you're on mobile, installing an app should give you a share option that might not be obvious
If on a PC/laptop, then setting up a bookmarklet should be relatively straightforward, but it's 10+ yrs since I did one of them and I'm very rusty, I'll have a look into it next few days
Scratch that, someone's done one, seems to work
Mastodon Toot Bookmarklet https://rknightuk.github.io/mastodon-toot-bookmarklet/
@matgb I didn’t understand how to do that. @SusanKraemer
@GottaLaff what web browser do you use?
For Firefox, given you're on this instance, click and hold your mouse on the toot button, and drag it up to your bookmarks. Chrome and Edge might be different but I think it's the same approach
@matgb Safari
@GottaLaff ah, have never used it, sorry
Does it have a bookmark toolbar and/or can you put bookmarks near the address bar. If so, drag thing there
Otherwise try dragging it over wherever bookmarks (or favourites?) Are accessed. Otherwise find a friendly Mac user I guess, it must be possible but …
@matgb But how does that give me a way to share without the effort, essentially, of copy/pasting links onto a Toot? Maybe I’m not understanding.
@GottaLaff when you have the bookmarklet set up, on any page you want to share you just click it, see what happens
You can even highlight text from article and it'll include that in compose, so it's better than most share buttons
@matgb Oh I understand now, but do’t know how to do that on Safari.