Solving Decentralized Social Media's URI Problem
2025-04-21
This essay explores user experience issues stemming from URI schemes in decentralized social media platforms like the Fediverse and Bluesky. Sharing links across instances often leads to problems like inability to comment or like posts. The author proposes a solution: new URI schemes (e.g., `fedi:` or `at:`). These would allow operating systems or browsers to directly invoke relevant apps based on the scheme, resolving link sharing, client compatibility, and post migration issues. While browser support for custom schemes is limited, this approach promises to greatly improve user experience in decentralized social media and warrants further investigation.
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