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Yeah, you would have to maintain a list of all Mastodon instance domain names, and Google requires this list to be baked in at build time of the app, so updating it requires updating the whole app and there's no way to dynamically detect that this link is a Mastodon link.
This isn't to say that it can't be done, Newpipe does this for Invidious/Piped instances, but yeah, it's a good bit of work...
it doesn't report itself as mastodon in the header or something? That would have been useful.
edit: yeah, no. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23939
It can't query this info externally occasionally...?
No. It must be in the app already. It's for security reasons.
Maybe some browser extension for like firefox mobile?
What I could theoretically imagine, is that an extension could give it a custom URL scheme, like
mastodon://mastodon.social/v1/..., and then the various Mastodon apps could register an intent/open handler for that. But yeah, again, quite a bit of effort.Alternatively, the apps could offer a secondary Share-action, which tries to open the link instead of creating a post from it...
That's a good idea