There have been proposals to use a custom URL scheme to accomplish this (you don't need the link to point to the person's home domain at all), but they were sho

There have been proposals to use a custom URL scheme to accomplish this (you don't need the link to point to the person's home domain at all), but they were shot down by Mastodon lead Eugen due to browser support and UX concerns. I think that is a mistake and it needs to be looked at more seriously. Perhaps another fedi software project will adopt a useful standard and then Mastodon can follow after the kinks are worked out. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19679#issuecomment-1301180085 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19679#issuecomme... https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2291 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2291