Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

If you're browsing a Mastodon server's website, have you ever noticed the ⧉ button on people's profiles?

This can be very useful, as it lets you copy the profile's web address in a single click. This makes it easy to:

- Paste it into the search box on your own server or app, so you can interact with it

- Share the profile with others on other platforms, it's a web address so anyone can view it

- View the profile in a new browser tab, the address will be the "original page"

#FediTips

Screenshot of a Mastodon profile viewed through the web interface with the ⧉ copy button highlighted and the caption "Click here to copy profile's web address".
Stefan Scholl
@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services the icon seems to be browser specific. It's not the same in every browser.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social

That's really interesting, hadn't noticed that, you're absolutely right.

It doesn't show at all on iPhone 😦😦

Are you seeing the button at all? Is it a different symbol?

Stefan Scholl
@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I see the button. Your version from the post is the one on Firefox. Chrome shows another icon.

I tried looking into the Mastodon source code, but it would take too long for me to understand it.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social

Thanks 🙏🙏

What happens when you click the icon in Chrome? Does it just copy the link or does it do something else?

Stefan Scholl
@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services in Firefox it just copies the link; in Chrome it opens some Windows 10 share feature.