If you're posting a link on Mastodon, you'll probably want to add https:// to the beginning so it is clickable.
For example fedi.tips isn't clickable but https://fedi.tips is clickable.
The reason https:// is required is in case people want to include dots in words or phrases without accidentally creating links.
p.s. Techy people might like to know that many non-web link types also work on here: https://, http://, gemini://, dat://, dweb://, gopher://, ipfs:// ssb://
@dvd@feditips Any newsreader registered with the OS can open the link. It's the same mechanism that web browsers and IRC clients, etc. use to become the default client for their respective protocols.
According to a discussion on Usenet in June of this year, the following newsreaders would be able to open 'news' links from an external request: Gnus, MesNews, 40Tude Dialog, Thoth and flnews. (Today I think I might add Betterbird.)
@feditips I've been wondering for a little while, how does Mastodon handle embedded links from platforms that let you do that sort of thing? I haven't found a way to create them on Mastodon itself, so I wasn't sure if they would even be clickable. For example, from Kbin, this text should link to fedi.tips. Do the links still federate?
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