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   Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 06:08:10 JST Daniel Gultsch

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   Is there any #ActivityPub / #Mastodon URI scheme used in the wild that would allow me to open an ActivityPub account directly in my Android app?

   I've seen 'acct' and 'web+ap' mentioned but none seem to be implemented.

   The goal is that given a text of "Here is my Mastodon profile acct:daniel@gultsch.social" #Conversations_im can link that directly into #Tusky. (Just like mailto and xmpp URIs open my E-Mail or IM app respectively)

   Have @apps or @Tusky considered that? If not way not?

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 03:45:46 JST Fedilab Apps

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     • Wiktor Kwapisiewicz

     @daniel
     Ticket created, we will work on that support.

     https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/issues/1160

     @wiktor @Tusky @delta

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     Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 03:45:47 JST Daniel Gultsch

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     • Wiktor Kwapisiewicz

     @wiktor I understand the concern about bad fallback on the web. I just wish people would be a bit more pragmatic about it and at least add support for reading / opening such URIs. Nobody suggested replace all Follow buttons with web+activitypub: links.

     Can we have support for FEP-07d7 in #Tusky and #Fedilab? (cc @Tusky @apps)

     It shouldn’t be that hard to implement at least one of the possible URI schemes in #Conversations_im, #Lttrs, #Tusky and #Fedilab. Maybe get @delta on board too?

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     Wiktor Kwapisiewicz (wiktor@metacode.biz)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 03:45:48 JST Wiktor Kwapisiewicz

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     Just for completeness there was a web+mastodon URI scheme in the use years ago but it got removed: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6255

     The tl;dr is that URI schemes have bad fallbacks on the web. If the user doesn’t have an app installed then either the browser doesn’t do anything (it’s bad), shows error page (worse) or a chooser (which, in case of no app installed, also doesn’t help).

     acct URI scheme is internally used by WebFinger if someone searches for accounts using the @account@example.com text.

     Sorry for not offering anything actionable 😓

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 00:54:36 JST Fedilab Apps

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     @daniel The app can now open profiles with the scheme "web+activitypub"

     Examples of working links:

     https://fdroid.fedilab.app/testlink/