@feditips I use IFTTT to create automations through Webhook function. Every time I 'Like' a YouTube video it posts it on my Mastodon feed.

@feditips personally I think it’s a great push for Web Share which is a native HTML5 protocol. Most mobile browsers at least support it (even Safari!)

@feditips I have tusky on my mobile devices and that makes pages and anything sharable have a share on mastodon option. It opens tusky and asks which account/instance to use. It isn't a blog share button, but it does the same thing while on mobile.

@feditips Im slapping a website together on wix that’s gonna need one. Im gonna find a button image I can copy off the interwebs then hide the link in it. Should work? I’ll get to it later.

@feditips I’d love to know how to embed the YouTube and Bandcamp links with the play button

@feditips Just used the code from @JesseSkinner to add a Mastodon button to my site (replacing the birdsite button that was there before). Here's a sample page:

https://practopian.org/blog/hbowie/thank-god-for-elon-musk.html

Thanks!

@feditips prediction: there will never be a "Share on Mastodon" button because the ethos here seems to be against it.

#Mastodon #HairShirtUX

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The Washington Post is allowing their journalists to include "share on Mastodon" buttons on their articles I'm pretty sure I heard.

@feditips The Share button works well in the #MetaText app

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I asked my provider for a simple Mastodon follow image that I could place on my webpage, and they had no idea what I was talking about! If only Mastodon had a PR unit. Alas, there seems to be no org to turn to.

@feditips My blogs use Wordpress and I've always used the Shariff plug-in to generate the share buttons I choose, including Mastodon.

The first time you use the button, it asks for your instance and then, presumably, stores it in a cookie.

Sharing to Masto is always going to be problematic because Masto isn't monolithic so the button has no idea where to send the user without asking for more information.

@feditips I built one: https://fo.llow.social/goodies - customizable share on Mastodon button, also button for email newsletters/RSS, and a link if you’d rather use your own icon; remembers your last instance; and likewise a follow button

@feditips on my iPhone, if I go to share an article, Mastodon is in my options, just by being on my phone. I’m not sure if this relates to laptops, since I rarely, if ever, use a laptop for social media.

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I'd like that! It'd be very handy.

@feditips I don't see the point of these buttons other than as a way to track users, since they provide anything copy/paste doesn't do already. Given that, I would expect commercial users of the Fediverse to start introducing them as soon as it's big enough for them to start tracking.

Meanwhile, I've seen more "reply on Mastodon" solutions on blogs and such so far, and those do have a legitimate purpose, in keeping answers to a particular article in the same comment hierarchy.

@feditips I love that I was able to click on "share" in the wapo app and choose mastodon as an option on my phone. I think as long as you have the app installed, it works.

@feditips just realized you can't switch username too.

@feditips I use https://shareon.js.org/.

@feditips There is a Chrome extension for sharing to The Fediverse. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/share-to-mastodon/bibnjflclpdmbbcncejifemmbggkcjde

@feditips WordPress plugin Shariff Wrapper plugin has a "Share on Mastodon" option https://wordpress.org/plugins/shariff/ Nice and easy to use, and data protection friendly!