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/
Jason Stiles@matgb @GottaLaff @SusanKraemer there are any number of ways to accomplish sharing an article, but nothing promotes the legitimacy of the platform to the masses like a button on the article next to all the other existing buttons. It’s like the content endorsing the platform as a place to share it. It is the next step for mass adoption of Mastadon.
@stiles @SusanKraemer Oh agree completely, but that'll come with time, Twitter share buttons didn't become ubiquitous for years —the multiple instance thing creates an extra hurdle on top of corporate caution tho
It's why teaching users their own native share options is better for us as they tend to work more reliably