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Hi
The share buttons plugin (serendipity_event_social) so far was the best way to add social share buttons to entries. It also adds og meta tags to entries, which help with the entry preview when an entry gets shared. I kept the plugin working for some time now, as I use it in my blog.

But I now decided that I don't want buttons to Facebook and Twitter anymore, given the political trajectory of those platforms. Also, the shariff project (https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff) that provided those share buttons in a privacy friendly way is quite inactive. I did fork the frontend project (https://github.com/onli/shariff-plus) and changed the code in a way that would make maintaining it easier, but don't have the time to really add such a project to my workload. Also, it's a simple fact that the APIs for providing share counters for the buttons are almost all gone. So, really https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff-backend-php is even more of a problem.

And that share buttons for mastodon are conceptually not easily possible adds to me questioning the current approach of the plugin.

So, the question is:

1. Is there someone who wants to take over maintaining this plugin?
2. In the meantime or in general, how would you feel if the shariff buttons got replaced with simple links buttons? This would mean no share counter, meaning one less service for me to maintain (I think this would only change things for Facebook).
2.1. Is there a preferred way to handle mastodon? That's the service that would matter most in my bubble. https://github.com/Juerd/tootpick ?

Hi.

2. In the meantime or in general, how would you feel if the shariff buttons got replaced with simple links buttons? This would mean no share counter, meaning one less service for me to maintain (I think this would only change things for Facebook).

This would be ok for me.

2.1. Is there a preferred way to handle mastodon? That's the service that would matter most in my bubble. https://github.com/Juerd/tootpick ?

Maybe we should store the fedi instance in the settings of the plugin.

Regards
Mario

Thanks Mario :)

MarioH wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 9:33 am

2.1. Is there a preferred way to handle mastodon? That's the service that would matter most in my bubble. https://github.com/Juerd/tootpick ?

Maybe we should store the fedi instance in the settings of the plugin.

Sadly, I think the instance can be different for each visitor :/

Sadly, I think the instance can be different for each visitor :/

Sure.
I was thinking the wrong way round, sorry.

Mario, are you up for some testing? :)

I reworked the plugin towards custom html buttons without using shariff, removed old services and added new ones, mastodon and bluesky primarily.

https://github.com/s9y/additional_plugins/pull/177 is the PR, but I also packed an archive to make this easier: https://www.onli-blogging.de/uploads/se ... 1.0.tar.gz