Because of how Mastodon and Lemmy are spread across multiple domains, I made an app for Android to help make following shared fediverse links hopefully a bit easier.

Fediverse Redirect has support for most Mastodon and Lemmy instances, and lets you choose which client you want the links to open in, even if that client doesn't support deep linking. It needs some initial setup because Android is very much not built for one app to have so many deep link domains specified, but it should be easy on Android 11 and later or when using LinkSheet.

Both variants are free and open source and there's support for a bunch of clients already. I'd love to hear your feedback on behavior/UI/new clients/whatever. Keep in mind that a lot of clients don't have a way to send them links, so I may not be able to add support without changes to the client.

Right now, downloads are available through the GitHub releases tab and through IzzyOnDroid. I may put the apps on the Play Store, but I don't think they'll be happy about all the deep link domains.

As with the original post, let me know if this isn't a good place to post this and I'll remove it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Thank you!

You should probably crosspost to [email protected] to increase visibility

[–] bappity 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

this is great, but for nonroot linksheet, mastodon and Lemmy Redirect don't show up as options 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll release an update soon with support for LinkSheet Nightly, which should properly list both apps.

[–] bappity 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

thanks so much! :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/zacharee/MastodonRedirect/releases/tag/1.4.2

[–] bappity 1 points 10 months ago

tested just now and working 👍 that was really quick thanks!!

[–] Jackthelad 3 points 10 months ago

Great idea!

The only sad thing at the moment is that neither of the Lemmy and Mastodon apps I use are supported yet. 🥲

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Great to hear an update about this project. Thank you for your work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Have the Mastodon variant and it works great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Good. I like when my links in deep.

This is why I can't hold a job.