Let's say that you've visited a website and want to share it with your friends. At the bottom of the article is a list of popular sharing destinations - Facebook, BlueSky, LinkedIn, Telegram, Reddit, HackerNews etc.
You click the relevant icon and get taken to the site with the sharing details pre-filled.
The problem is, every different site has a different intent for sharing links and text. For example:
https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=…&t=…
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=…
https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=…
https://www.threads.net/intent/post?url=…&text=…
https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=…&title=…
As you can see, some only allow a URL, some text and a URL, and some just a plain text which could contain the URl. A bit of a mess! It's probably impossible to get every site to agree on a standard for their sharing intent. But there could be a standard for exposing their existing sharing mechanism.
That's the proposal from Ben Werdmuller with "Share Openly".
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