I’m experimenting on my tech tips articles with #ShareOpenly, a web app that acts as an intermediate layer between sites that want a share button and newer social media sites like #Mastodon instances.
The author describes it here: https://werd.io/2024/share-openly.
Basically:
1. The publisher links to Share Openly with the URL and title or description of the page to share.
2. The reader clicks on it and tells SO what site they want to share on (pre-filled or type in a hostname, with the manually added ones remembered).
3. SO opens that site’s post form with the text pre-filled and ready to go.
It knows where to find the posting forms for several kinds of server software, and you can add a <link rel="share_url".../> template to your site to tell it where to look. I may do this for my Postmarks site.
But not everything has a post form that can be pre-filled. Heck, not everything has a front-end to begin with. So I can’t just put that link tag on my #GoToSocial instance and point to the post form, because there isn’t one. And it doesn’t look like Elk or Semaphore have a way to pre-fill a post either.
sigh Sometimes I really wish #WebIntents had taken off.
Anyway, here’s an article on my site with “Share This Page” linking to the webapp
https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/finish-by-scheduling/
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