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mcc

If you're using Tusky, and a post contains a link to another Fediverse post, and you tap the link, Tusky figures out it's a Fediverse post and displays the post within the client instead of sending you to the website. If you're using Mastodon Ruby this does not happen. You have to do this awkward thing of copying the link and then pasting it into the search box and hitting return.

Maybe I should have used Mastodon Sapphire.

anne.💫1d ago

@mcc Moshidon does it like Tusky. :)

@mcc real gamers are holding out for mastodon emerald for that postgame goodness

Brian Swetland 1d ago

@mcc Do Mastodon clients/releases now come in variants like Pokemon games?

(I wish they could make links-to-fedi-posts "just work" in the web UI...)

Ratsnake Games 🔞1d ago

@mcc Ruby and Sapphire have the same codebase, you need to wait for Emerald for fixes

higgins 1d ago

@ratsnakegames @mcc or wait for the Emerald fixes to be back ported to latest Sapphire fork that is the only repo the Ruby TNG devs backport from, wait, I just heard there was drama so it is other forks now.

David Chartier 1d ago

@mcc FWIW Ivory does this well too

Jamie is a friendly nut 1d ago

@mcc wait weren't you a contributor to tusky? do you not use it anymore?

@InfiniteNutshell I was a contributor to Tusky, and stopped because I was too busy with work. I am still using Tusky on my phone. However I do not use it on my computer because Tusky is phone

@mcc unfortunately you can't delay opening a link on the web, if we were to implement the same logic it would fail awkwardly for everything that is not a resolvable fediverse link

@Claire oh, that makes sense. is this person just confused then, though? https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@emmy/116291559075870458

Emmy 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Or a Mastodon glitch-soc instance. Both links open inside the web UI for me.

catgirl.cloud

@mcc possibly! There's nothing in glitch to open links to posts on the same server's WebUI anyway

@Claire a thing that is extremely funny to me is that fediverse would (IMO) strongly benefit from a dedicated URL scheme, but fediverse doesn't have this, but atproto DOES have this, but bluesky doesn't USE or in any way meaningfully support the URL scheme that atproto has, and also the URL scheme atproto uses is literally incompatible with the specs for either a WhatWG URL or IETF URI.

@mcc there are attempts but basically i think on web browsers the experience of handling custom URL schemes is abysmal (things may have changed since last time i had a look)

mathieui 1d ago

@Claire @mcc would it be possible to check server-side for the fediverseness of a link, and if that is the case, replace the display link with a version proxied through the local instance, with a specific icon/style to help distinguish it?

@mathieui @Claire I believe this would result in the hug of death problem but worse

@mcc @mathieui depending on how it's done, yeah

but like if the authoring side can annotate the link as “this is an ActivityPub object”, the receiving side can at least store the information, and the on-demand approach is more likely to succeed

this is one of the things we are exploring

Emmy 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸1d ago

@mcc Or a Mastodon glitch-soc instance. Both links open inside the web UI for me.

Kelson 1d ago

@mcc Phanpy (as a web client on desktop) handles this pretty well most of the time. There's a weird case where sometimes it'll open a thread in the webapp but not through your instance, and I'm not sure what triggers that, but when it does, it shows a button that just fixes it.