autolink
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An autolink is a hyperlink that was automatically added to some text to link that text to an obvious or useful destination, like hyperlinking a URL in plaintext to the URL itself, linking hashtags to search results, and @-names to their profile pages.
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IndieWeb Examples
Tantek
Tantek Çelik posts plain text notes on tantek.com which are autolinked (URLs, @-names) with the CASSIS
auto_link function since 2010-02-16.
... many more ...
Feel free to add your site if you also support posting of notes with autolinking, and note since when.
Open Source
See CASSIS auto_link function for a fairly good (and selfdogfooded) open source autolink implementation for PHP&JS.
Silo Examples
Most silos autolink URLs, some autolink hashtags & @-names as well (Twitter, Instagram).
