https://ibb.co/v4pw6rw This URL actually resolves in my android fedilab app so don't know if this has hardcodrd instances or uses regex. It shouldn't be difficult to build a regrx, I know of an app that did for peertube

I'm using Link Eye [1] which lets you open any url in the application of your choice. It's fantastic, also enabling you to open youtube links in NewPipe.

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/kuesji.link_eye.fdroid/

Youtube links open in newpipe also without that app

Hmm, it could be dependent on which app you're opening the links from. I remember having issues before Link Eye.

Verified Links make it so if the official YouTube app is installed and enabled, other apps won't be launched for the same URL patterns with a simple ACTION_VIEW intent.

Didn't know of that one yet. And so the lock-in continues https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/246819/how-to-di...

Thanks for the heads up. I wonder at what android version I'll decide it's no longer worth the breakage to upgrade. I was still happiest with the options of Cyanogenmod 4.4, the only new thing I can remember being happy about since then is "allow permission while using" (and even that is not working well)

Open With, although it's no longer maintained: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/open-with/

There are ways to do this, i.e. through custom protocol handlers. They could also be used to deal with following accounts on other servers without having to copy/paste all the time.

Mastodon had a custom URI for interacting with it, but it wasn't an opt-in feature and the constant prompt to register the handler annoyed people. That's why the feature and the protocol were removed and they haven't been added back.

I think it's rather silly to first ignore the calls to opt into the protocol popup, then remove it completely because there were too many complaints about the protocol popup, and now refuse to add it back because of "bad UX".