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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 15 points 1 week ago

Not that I'm opposed, but I'm not sure if it's practical to make a fediverse-wide link that's resolvable between platforms since there are so many differences and little incompatibilities and developers who don't directly interact with each other -- or even know each other exist!

Even if it isn't though, it would be nice to be able to do something like lemmy://(rest of regular url) to indicate data from a lemmy(-compatible) server that should be viewable by all other lemmy clients without leaving your particular client and having to open some other website.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 1 week ago

silly. this would be like expecting to use IE:// for internet explorer webpages instead of an expected protocol standard like http. defeats the purpose of protocol designed around content not applications.

imagine how shitty email would be if we had to tag the server application somewhere in the uri. silly.