How can we get Mastodon links like this to open in the Mastodon app?
On android this is decided by the url (apps can request certain urls to be forwarded to them) but since there are many different servers in fediverse that becomes impractical
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)
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".