Lars Fosdal
MastodonWe've got something to Share! We hope you'll find it useful. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-new-share-button/
Beko Pharm@Mastodon soโฆ basically what https://s2f.kytta.dev/ does for years? ๐ค
Turr1caN@bekopharm @Mastodon Did u read the news? ๐ค
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FiXato
๊ฎ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ฑ๐จ๐ฑ๐ง@FiXato start to type and theyโll appear
@liilliil I know how to make it appear... I am asking where the data it uses, is populated from; what it uses as source.
@FiXato looks like from some their list ;)
my im-in.space is absent there
my im-in.space is absent there
CritteRo ๐ช๐บ@liilliil @FiXato It's probably getting them from the same place as https://joinmastodon.org/servers
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JL Johnson 
@Mastodon While I know other options have existed, it's great that you now have an official solution. THANK YOU for your continued efforts to liberate folks from for-profit algorithmic garbage SM. This I think will be a big step in the right direction.
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Matthias@_elena
I can understand that advertising is important for promoting one's own product in a commercial world. However, in the Fediverse, it does not bring people together, but rather divides or excludes them. Therefore, it makes more sense to advertise for this purpose.
GitHub - stefanbohacek/fediverse-share-button: Let your site's visitors share your work with the fediverse!
I can understand that advertising is important for promoting one's own product in a commercial world. However, in the Fediverse, it does not bring people together, but rather divides or excludes them. Therefore, it makes more sense to advertise for this purpose.
GitHub - stefanbohacek/fediverse-share-button: Let your site's visitors share your work with the fediverse!
John Morahan@Mastodon hmm, nice, but shouldn't the "Create an account" link go to https://joinmastodon.org/ rather than https://mastodon.social/auth/sign_up ?
Gustavo
adb@gustavo also came here to comment that, the problem I see is that it is hard to recommend random instances that will disappear overnight, but at least offering a random trusted instance that have been running for years would be nice
I think the actual problem here is the strong dependency in a single instance, mastodon should move in a direction where you can have multi-homing and not have your profile depend on single point of failure
@adbenitez @jmorahan @Mastodon Weren't they working on solving this issue? Like, finding reliable servers?
@gustavo @adbenitez @Mastodon yes, or so they said: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/mastodon-is-for-the-people/#default-server-recommendations-and-server-discovery
but the button they're referring to is on https://joinmastodon.org/ which this link doesn't even point to
like, they could point it to https://joinmastodon.org/ *now*, and it would still effectively send people to mastodon.social, but at least that way when they fix that it would fix this too
Bart Veldhuizen ๐@Mastodon Neat implementation! ๐
@Mastodon ะดะพะผะตะฝ ัััะบะฐะผะธ ะฒะฒะพะดะธัั ััะพ ะปะธ? ะฟะพัะฝัั
ะฐ ะบะฐะบะฐั-ัะพ
Malte Aurich
FlippoFlip ๐ดโโ ๏ธ@Mastodon Big if true
Angua 
Stefanvery cool! I wish when I typed in a server and press the down arrow it started to highlight options in the list.
thanks so much!
Michael@Mastodon I like the idea but:
It doesnโt support cases where the WEB_DOMAIN and LOCAL_DOMAIN donโt match. Iโm used to that from 3rd party tools, but for 1st party tools Iโd expect better.
Please add autocomplete="off" to the domain field. Typing in anything other than proper words is a pain on mobile.
Why does โCreate an accountโ lead directly to mastodon.social?!
Torsten Materna@Mastodon Wonderful. Will use it ๐
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teledyn ๐I'd become so conditioned to Share buttons I couldn't use and years of just habitually using Firefox share options that I had forgotten Share Buttons were even still a thing! ๐
The Void ใถใปใดใฉใคใ@Mastodon The link to share joinmastodon org is 404-ing. Because itโs http, not https, perhaps? Also, cool!
Artem R ๐บ๐ฆ@Mastodon amazing! Just a few month ago I launched similar project, also using server side redirect for speed called mastoshare.link Also would be nice to support as well "account" and "post" types โ so it is easier to follow people from their websites/blogs
Steffen Voร@Mastodon This is only half a solution. Why can't I set my handle in the browser and never have to fill it in anywhere?
Martin 2.0 
is in the local storage AFAIK, so if you have used it once, it should remember you.
GunChleoc
James Wilcox@gunchleoc This is the most powerful part of the feature, which they didn't even mention. Most of the people I know would not want to remember which server they're on.
Kevin Karhan 
@Mastodon @Gargron so when are you gonna fix hot issues, most notably #developers / #maintainers of #Mastodon who just close issues without reading them!
- Cuz that is a serious problem beyond my personal issue I posted...
โพ๏ธ Water@kkarhan You wrote so much. holy shit. Nobody got time to read that.
@hisold Not sorry, because I do actually care about #Mastodon and the #Fediverse so I am invested in it getting better.
- It's just really annoying when one has to fight against stubborn maintainers who refuse to actually read stuff and close an issue like some underpaid #CallcenterAgent / #TechSupport person being paid solely per closed ticket, and not to actually fix issues.
- Cuz yes I've seen that from the inside and it's sickening!
If you want everything to be criminally simplified to fit the attention span of some shitty billionaire egoist, then maybe #Shitter has you covered.
Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] There are [even more issues](https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23249) [neglected](https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33530) like that... #Mastodon #FLOSS
แดฎแตโฟ แดฟแตสธแถแตVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESyeah but you won't get movement by yelling at mastodon devs
you have to contribute to the project yourself, or adopt a more circumspect approach
people who make loud angry demands do not help. they are in no position to have any leverage: open source is not a hierarchy, it's not like you're in the office and you call up a boss and they make things happen
i'm not really disagreeing with you, and you're really not yelling
but i do see this behavior unfortunately out there
@benroyce @kkarhan I've opened many issues on open source projects.
What really annoys me is wrong duplicate classifications. Many of which I do blame on laziness.
When I see they have a thousand open issues, I know there won't be happening much in the coming months. I know what it's like for them because it's the same at my work. A hundred User Stories that become 500 tasks plus 200 bugs following them and so on...
@hisold @benroyce exactly that is my problem....
I can accept that my issue won't be worked on anytime soon.
But I can accept 10+ year old, low-priority issues being open instead of lazy-ass shite.
@hisold @benroyce I write as dense as possible, but certain issues need explaining, including why it's not a duplicate and why this is an issue...
- If projects can't be assed to do that then maybe they shouldn't do Software to begin with, close issues entirely or paywall Support and hire someone to do it. instead.
- Cuz then at least someone halfway motivated is actually trying to make it work.
Do I sound jaded?
- Sorry if this sounds like venting. but it had to be said...
Microblog Castellano
Microblog Castellano (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Mi paice que me pasao con el sharebutton
Harald Leithner@Mastodon nice, 2 wishes. support for mobile apps would be great and of course alias domain support is also missing. I hope you consider this in a future release.
WorldTravelerAll7
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Feng Gao
tasket@Mastodon "There used to be a legitimate reason for this: unlike legacy social, Mastodon isnโt a single monolithic website..."
Email links work on web pages, even though email is decentralized. The reason it works is because email has a protocol handler known as 'mailto:'. Its a simple URL definition that tells any program (esp. operating systems) where to handle a clicked link, such as your email client.
A handler for ActivityPub should have been defined, but that detail was overlooked.
@Mastodon What this new "button" seems to do is implement another dangerous band-aid that habituates users to login to M. at the prompting of foreign websites. If you think users are going to closely watch their location bars to ensure they are 'home' before typing their password, I've got news for you...
From my limited use so far, it has a number of limitations that make it inferior to the UX for email or centralized sites.
@Mastodon For one thing, it doesn't seem to handle dedicated fedi apps. It also doesn't address what happens when other apps simply want to link to fedi content (without immediately sharing); a user clicking from a pdf or epub viewer or an email client, for instance, would be lost.
All of this is very ragged and slipshod because IDK why... protocol handlers seem too old fashioned to this clique of devs.
@Mastodon can you please add profile sharing functionality? You can check how it works on https://mastoshare.link and then I can sunset Mastoshare
@Mastodon I like the way it works. Thank you for this!
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