I don't get why Mastodon didn't standardize on an informal mastodon: protocol or something so all mobile apps could register as a protocol handler for it and the Mastodon web app could try to open that as a link href before falling back to https:

It's dumb having the iOS Mastodon app only open when a mastodon\.social profile or post is tapped on from Safari but everyone on a different instance or using a 3rd party mobile app requires a copy, open app, search, paste, tap