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fedi-uri: A URI Scheme for Fediverse resources (github.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Masimatutu@mander.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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[–] masimatutu@nerdica.net 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good question. Tagging @timbray so that he can answer.

[–] timbray@cosocial.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@masimatutu The draft doesn't say. I imagine that if you signed up for a Lemmy or Masto instance, you would be invited to install a "fedi" scheme handler that knows your instance.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

But if you have to install an extension, how does this differ from current extension that already do this? What could the url scheme do that using http urls couldn't?