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zacharee / MastodonRedirect

Deep linking proxy for Mastodon and Lemmy on Android, allowing you to launch your selected client automatically.
MIT License
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Allow arbitrary PWAs? #19

Closed AAGaming00 closed 1 year ago

AAGaming00 commented 1 year ago

Would it be possible to allow people to simply redirect to their own instance's URL so it would launch the PWA?

zacharee commented 1 year ago

Mastodon and Lemmy don't really have a good way to directly send their default frontends URLs.

Mastodon expects https://instance/user@domain[/postId], which would be possible to construct from a full URL, but only if it's also a Mastodon URL and not Friendica, Pleroma, etc, which use different URL formats.

Lemmy has different post IDs for the same post depending on which instance you're viewing it on. https://lemmy.world/post/12345 might be https://lemmy.ml/post/54321 and there's no static way of looking that ID up.

AAGaming00 commented 1 year ago

Would it be possible to allow some kind of user-specified url template that you replace keywords in

i.e. https://instance.url/objects/%postID or something

zacharee commented 1 year ago

That doesn't address the issue of how the app can know what the post ID is from an incoming URL.

AAGaming00 commented 1 year ago

ah fair