ian
April 22, 2026, 7:36am
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For this, it would be beneficial for the autolinker to be the same across platforms:
It’s even trickier than that, because Delta Chat clients can also linkify text other than that beginning with http: and https:. Notably, they usually linkify a URL having the scheme stripped, substituting http for it.
As linkification is not implemented by Delta Chat itself so far, rather left for the respective platform libraries, I think this feature will be more costly to implement properly than you would think if you wanted it to work consistently across platforms.
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Also, by “Mastodon”, you are referring to the acct: URI scheme as supported by all major Fediverse servers along with a few odd contenders such as twtxt.
WebFinger is a protocol specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF in RFC 7033 that allows for discovery of information about people and things identified by a URI. Information about a person might be discovered via an acct: URI, for example, which is a URI that looks like an email address.
WebFinger is specified as the discovery protocol for OpenID Connect, which is a protocol that allows one to more easily log in to various sites on the Internet.
The WebFinger protocol is used by f...