Thinking through a “share with Mastodon” button that anyone could embed on a website. It’s a harder problem than a “share with Twitter” button, because

This is a good idea. It’d be neat to get fediverse services, including lemmy, supporting this. We could make cross site interactions so much easier.

  • OracleClyde
    5•1 year ago

    @0x1C3B00DA @tchambers Currently I have been using a Chrome extension that lets me save my instance info so that when I click the Mastodon share button on my toolbar it opens a tab and fills out the post box with the link and title of the page. It could use some extra features but so far it streamlines my sharing flow. But yes, we need a better approach for web publishers to embed the sharing code in their templates.

  • @ccx@sopuli.xyz
    5•1 year ago

    I’m probably missing something, but wouldn’t it be far easier to redirect people to install page of extension for their respective browser? Such extension could then transform the button as needed to point to whichever social web instance.

    • @0x1C3B00DAOP
      8•1 year ago

      An extension could work, but some users won’t want to install an extension and other users can’t install them (work computer/mobile browser).

  • Dirk Hohndel
    5•1 year ago

    @0x1C3B00DA a ‘share on social web’ will be one of the key ways to get Mastodon to be more mainstream. To make it easier to share stories here.

    (and this is one of the cases where I would have preferred a way to ‘quote tweet’)

    • @0x1C3B00DAOP
      5•1 year ago

      It would be a key way to get the fediverse more mainstream. The best part of this idea, to me, is that it could work for any service

    • @0x1C3B00DAOP
      3•1 year ago

      Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, discussion seems to have stalled in 2020.

  • alex [they/them]
    2•1 year ago

    I love my Mastodon plugin, but wish I could have a Lemmy plugin to easily share stuff. It would be much more constructive than sharing on Mastodon too, as the format for sharing content that is made by someone else is more suited to Lemmy in my opinion.

    • @0x1C3B00DAOP
      3•1 year ago

      This is why I think using a rel link built in to the software is better than an extension. Each service builds the sharing feature in instead of third-party devs having to build extensions for each service and users having to install an extension for every service they use.