@tasket @cwebber@octodon.social the webapp used to register a web+mastodon protocol handler but the popup confused people and I don't think anyone ever used it
@tasket it's necessary if you want a link that the browser automatically associates with the instances you're actually logged in on
@tasket how do you propose I should i.e. post a link to a toot in a group chat that does that?
@tasket intra-fedi links usually just work? external links are the whole issue
also a browser extensions largely don't work on phones
really, a lot of people have thought about this and "click this button, enter your username" or "copy the link into your preferred Mastodon frontend's search bar" is a pretty good solution
@tasket hm, it's not trivial to rewrite links like that (and Mastodon the software allows for arbitrary links, so it's certainly not an easy problem to solve)
