GitHub has added support for Mastodon links in your profile. It looks like they are doing something to figure out that the link is Mastodon compatible.
I know that Micro.blog isn’t a Mastodon instance, but I would like people who use Mastodon to be able to follow me using Micro.blog’s ActivityPub support. When I try to add http://vincode.io/@maurice GitHub doesn’t recognize it.
Am I doing something wrong or does this just not make sense to try with Micro.blog.
It looks like GitHub has hardcoded this to Mastodon’s @username format. I can’t get it to work with Micro.blog either. I’ll do some more testing and see if we can figure out a work-around.
So, GitHub is checking the server type and only adding the icon and link if it’s Mastodon. I have mixed feelings about advertising Micro.blog as Mastodon all the time. We might be able to add a setting to temporarily change the server type so this works with GitHub, until GitHub can add official support for Micro.blog.