Implementing a “Share on Mastodon” button for a blog

I decided that I would make it easier for people to share my articles on social media, most importantly on Mastodon. However, my Hugo theme didn’t support showing a “Share on Mastodon” button yet. It wasn’t entirely trivial to add support either: unlike with centralized solutions like Facebook where a simple link is sufficient, here one would need to choose their home instance first.

As far as existing solutions go, the only reasonably sophisticated approach appears to be Share₂Fedi. …

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