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Looking through some of the replies, smh.

Have we come to the point where copying an account address from one app (the browser) into another app (the Mastodon app) is too difficult to comprehend or requires too much effort to carry out? 🙄

Having the account address be automatically sent to your app is something your browser would have to be programmed do (like it does with mailto: links where it sends it to your default email app).

You can't expect your Mastodon app to psychically know that you saw an account address in your browser and that you want it to call up that account! You have to put it in the search bar, folks.

Does your browser pop up your Twitter app with the twitter link you clicked in the browser? If it does, it's because Twitter became a popular enough app that browser programmers decided to make it work that way (to launch the twitter app). Your twitter app doesn't monitor all the browser links you click on (wait ... or does it? 🤔 😱 )