What do you think about having a custom URI scheme for the fediverse? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by asudox@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Since we are in the fediverse, I think it would be convenient to have a fediverse-wide resolvable fediverse URI scheme, that would look like so:

fediverse://

edit: Found a relevant FEP: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/07d7/fep-07d7.md

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[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 31 points 2 weeks ago

Changing the scheme doesn't really make any difference if it's still just HTTP underneath. The scheme is just for indicating a protocol. So what's the different protocol you'd actually propose?

[-] lwe@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Apps (at least on android, no idea both iOS) could claim support for the protocol. Removing the need to claim hundreds or thousands of addresses.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 2 weeks ago

By "claiming addresses" you mean domains? Or what?

You mean because the address in the fediverse scheme would be domain-independent? How in the world would that work? How would it know what to connect to? You're proposing something completely different than ActivityPub at least.

[-] lwe@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

On android, when you click a link that has an association with an app you get the choice to open the app instead of being redirected to the website. Example picture of boost with a few dozen urls Right now every app developer for the fediverse needs to maintain a list of instances for this. If you had a protocol instead you would only need to specify the one.