🎷🦣 Introducing Mastoshare β€” universal links for the Fediverse.

Paste any Mastodon post, profile, or text β†’ get a link that opens on anyone's home instance. No more copy-paste-search!

βœ“ No tracking
βœ“ EU hosted
βœ“ Free & open source

Available on https://mastoshare.link

#mastodon #fediverse #opensource #builtinpublic #web #webdev #frontend

@asci Really cool! I wonder if you could go the other way. Make this a PWA so I can "Share" any URL I find in the wild to it, and then it gives me a button to open this in my home instance? I don't know if that's possible, but I'd find that incredibly useful.
@Loopsaround something like a list of links to check later on home instance? Links to fediverse stuff or just random ones?
@asci I was thinking simpler. I see links to other instances posted all the time. I want to open them on my home instance (or other instance of my choosing) immediately. Maybe there's a right way to do this, but everytime I click one of these links, it opens in their instance where I'm not logged in
@Loopsaround ah, so it is a link inside a post? If so, I see 2 ways that can be done: with browser extension that wraps all links in mastoshare link or if instance server (e.g. mastodon backend) will do links rewrites a-la LinkedIn as an option (which would be better). I'm exploring browser extension, but first wanna see the adoption of main service
@Loopsaround ah, and web client can do rewrites too I guess, meaning @elk can add onclick handler and check if it is a link to a mastodon or not and if it is then rewrite it so it will open in the context of home instance
@asci @elk Ah I see, yes those would all be better options than my idea of manually using the "Share" button. Thank you for the brainstorm!