{"id":37708,"date":"2022-11-23T15:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37708"},"modified":"2022-11-23T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:53:03","slug":"mastodon-uris-not-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/23\/mastodon-uris-not-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon URIs, Not URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/?p=309\">Chris Hanson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/?p=309\"><p>One of the annoying things about Mastodon is that it&rsquo;s tough to share Mastodon links and have them open in your favorite app instead of in a web browser. This is due to the lack of a shared scheme <em>or<\/em> a shared server&mdash;which makes sense for a distributed\/federated system, but doesn&rsquo;t help its usability.<\/p><p>One thing the community should do is use a <strong>URI<\/strong> instead of a URL or a Twitter\/AOL-style &ldquo;handle&rdquo; to refer to an account: A URI is a Uniform Resource <strong>Identifier<\/strong> that is <em>resolved to<\/em> a URL, which makes it easier to have all links to Mastodon accounts go to the user&rsquo;s preferred app&mdash;and also enable the global namespace that <a href=\"https:\/\/atp.fm\/\">ATP<\/a> cares about so much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/08\/migrating-from-twitter-to-mastodon\/\">Migrating From Twitter to Mastodon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hanson: One of the annoying things about Mastodon is that it&rsquo;s tough to share Mastodon links and have them open in your favorite app instead of in a web browser. This is due to the lack of a shared scheme or a shared server&mdash;which makes sense for a distributed\/federated system, but doesn&rsquo;t help its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-11-23T20:53:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"17e722bb-11b5-4942-a755-dff7e82b3c4b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-11-23T20:53:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AF-ciuxG1SUKnVd_36Cs8Sw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1718,489,96],"class_list":["post-37708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mastodon","tag-url","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37709,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37708\/revisions\/37709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}