Suppose I was sent a link to this video explaining the fediverse. Is there a way to open that in kbin’s pwa so I’m logged in and can interact with it? If not, what would be the right URL format to view it “via kbin”?

  • elscallr@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    I was thinking about “Open in kbin” earlier on phones. I don’t know how iOS works, but with Android you’d need to configure the app to be the “opener” for every federated domain which isn’t practical. If there was like a single site which people used as a URL handler then you could use that, but that would require everyone link through that site which, aside from the security and privacy concerns, diminishes federation in general.

    Instead, a button in the app that could be like “Open thing” and you give it a URL is practical and, according to the reading I’ve been doing on the ActivityPub protocol this morning, practical. I’m thinking of maybe trying my hand at submitting a PR with the feature.

    A browser extension is more practical on desktop.

      • elscallr@kbin.socialOP
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        1 year ago

        Does it only work against certain sites and can that list be updated externally? If no to either, then it’s roughly in the same boat as Android. That’s the benefit of the browser extension on desktop, at least there the list can be crowdsourced and have other people constantly validating it, etc.