SRSLY sharing selections to

… xitter

There’s an option for sharing the contents, that is text plus a link to the posting, of a selection. But surprisingly it only supports posting to xitter and e-mail.

Could the forum team investigate if other social media sites could be supported with a reasonable amount of effort?

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Facebook too, at least for me.

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If you want to share to the OSM.town Mapstodon server (for people logged into there), you can open a pop-up with the following URL. Logged in users (to mastodon) will see a post prefilled with the text. I think this is similar to how the Nazi-Bar Site Twitter sharing is done.

https://en.osm.town/share?text=TEXT&url=URL

e.g. (using the “share this post on X” for this post would mean this url: https://en.osm.town/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.openstreetmap.org%2Ft%2Fsrsly-sharing-selections-to%2F122144&text=SRSLY+sharing+selections+to) and shows me a window like:

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