Difference between revisions of "Mastodon"

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About

Mastodon is web server software which provides a user interface to the OStatus and ActivityPub fediverses. It is written primarily in Ruby and JavaScript; Eugen Rochko is the creator and primary maintainer. The official code repository is on GitHub.

ActivityPub support was introduced in version 1.6, with the intention of making it Mastodon's primary communication protocol.

It also makes use of WebSub but I haven't found an explanation of how this fits in. -- Woozle

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Pages

instance: a brief definition
people: a directory
tech: details about how it works
usage: user guides
admin: administration guides

Forks

Apps

official list of clients
- /Tusky (GitHub) (Mastodon: official, main developer)
- TootStream: CLI Mastodon client (Python)

Utilities

Hellthread Visualizer

Links

official

reference

Wikipedia
Guide to Mastodon (as PDF) (via)
The Mastodon Wiki (not sure who runs this)
Grafana - Mastodon Network Overview
Mastodon instances: an automated list of all known Mastodon instances, with technical ratings
Instance Recommendations (~~via~~ via) "Some general suggestions for whitelisting, blocking and/or silencing instances"
Mastodon Apps: official list of apps available or in progress
kitty.town (home):
- Domain Block List: list of problematic instances (as determined by the Mayor of kitty.town)
- promotional flyers
First Toot: look up the first message posted on any public instance

compilations

Artodon: Mastodon Art gallery (curated from multiple instances) (via)

posts about

2021-02-11 delve’s Mastodon Resource List, v1
2020-09-26 Decentralized Social Networks vs. The Trolls (video) (h/t): moderation on Mastodon, with a brief introduction to the fediverse; what happened with Gab
2018-09-14 Twitter's Emerging Competitor Doesn't Want to Be Twitter
2018-07-06 [official] Cage the Mastodon: An overview of features for dealing with abuse and harassment (h/t) by Eugen Rochko: includes an explanation of why they won't ever support quote-boosts ("QB"). I am skeptical.
2018-03-23 The new technology that aspires to #DeleteFacebook for good (via)
2018-01-22 The Mastodon In The Room (via) by Sadiq
2017-11-30 Update and retrospective
2017-10-19 [official] Mastodon 2.0: The Big Emoji Update by Eugen Rochko
2017-08-01 [official] M for Mastodon by Eugen Rochko
2017-07-07 Connection: Meeting a Mastodon for Lunch (IRL) (toot)
2017-06-15 I have to say that it's slightly irritating when new users (wrongly) imply that...: some myths about Mastodon
2017-05-07 One Week of Mastodon
2017-04-23 Mourning Mastodon (share and)
2017-04-09
- Mastodon, pineapples, social media and other unanswered questions (via) by Johanna Drott
- What I wish I knew before joining Mastodon (via)
2017-04-05 Mastodon is dead in the water
2017-04-04 Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?

instances

social.targaryen.house has repeatedly shown that they will passively tolerate free speech trolling

service providers

Managed hosting for Mastodon instances:

~~MaaStodon~~ stopped accepting new accounts on 2018-05-15
- run by CobaltVelvet (also admin of octodon.social)
masto.host: hosting for Mastodon instances; they provide maintenance
- run by hugo@masto.pt

technical

Official:

Using the API
- OAuth details
- Testing with cURL: it's possible to get OAuth tokens with client_id, client_secret, email, and password too

tools: web

Nerdpanel: reads your Mastodon posts and lets you search them; does not store anything on a server

tools: code

Mastodon.py: Python wrapper for Mastodon API
Mastodon Tools: PHP code that interfaces with Mastodon in various ways
Halcyon: a PHP client for Mastodon, and related stuff
SupportBot: "A framework for making social media bots for multiple networks" written in Python
Mastodon Bridge: cross-correlates your Twitter and Mastodon account, and shows commonality (only for users who have used the same tool)
- https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon-bridge - source code (Ruby); good example of how to allow an app to access Mastodon, which effectively includes authentication
mastodon-backup: "Archive your statuses, favorites and media using the Mastodon API (i.e. login required)"

Notes

Wish list:

a way to set up auto-replies filtered by instance [1]
where X is a set of users chosen by user Y, collect stats about users who follow them or are followed by them (e.g. list users who follow a lot of them or are followed by a lot of them, possibly for autoblocking) and make those stats available to user Y.

Other stuff:

2017-06-26 Moderation hotfix - mst3k.interlinked.me, coales.co (archive): note about a reverted block

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 ==Forks==
-* [[Toot.Cat]]: [https://github.com/TootCat/mastodon/ GitHub]
 * [[Mastodon Glitch Edition]]
 * [https://github.com/gled-rs/mastodo Mastodo]
@@ Line 35: / Line 34: @@
 * [https://joinmastodon.org/ home site]
 ** [https://docs.joinmastodon.org/ documentation]
+** [https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors corporate sponsors]
 * [https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon GitHub]
 * [https://twitter.com/MastodonProject/status/895621121537699840 Twitter]
@@ Line 54: / Line 54: @@
 * [https://mastodon.art/gallery/index.html Artodon: Mastodon Art gallery] (curated from multiple instances) ([https://mastodon.social/users/ekaitz_zarraga/statuses/99229001114065695 via])
 ===posts about===
+* '''2021-02-11''' [https://delvethedragon.medium.com/delves-mastodon-resource-list-v1-2021-02-11-16bf6d3b77d2 delve’s Mastodon Resource List, v1]
 * '''2020-09-26''' [https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01f38f966 Decentralized Social Networks vs. The Trolls] (video) ([https://octodon.social/@cwebber/104943399401954002 h/t]): moderation on Mastodon, with a brief introduction to the [[fediverse]]; what happened with [[Gab]]
 * '''2018-09-14''' [https://kotaku.com/twitters-emerging-competitor-doesnt-want-to-be-twitter-1829069122 Twitter's Emerging Competitor Doesn't Want to Be Twitter]
+* '''2018-07-06''' [official] [https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/ Cage the Mastodon: An overview of features for dealing with abuse and harassment] ([https://mastodon.social/@hq/109248791035374090 h/t]) by [[Eugen Rochko]]: includes an explanation of why they won't ever support quote-boosts ("QB"). [https://toot.cat/@woozle/109248797552484199 I am skeptical.]
 * '''2018-03-23''' [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/23/the-new-technology-that-aspires-to-deletefacebook-for-good/ The new technology that aspires to #DeleteFacebook for good] ([https://social.coop/@mattcropp/99734905918027945 via])
 * '''2018-01-22''' [https://asininetech.com/2018/01/22/the-mastodon-in-the-room/ The Mastodon In The Room] ([https://mastodon.zombocloud.com/@staticsafe/99395983208325166 via]) by [https://mastodon.zombocloud.com/@staticsafe Sadiq]
 * '''2017-11-30''' [https://www.patreon.com/posts/15635446 Update and retrospective]
-* '''2017-10-19''' [https://medium.com/@Gargron/mastodon-2-0-e93d9d28dbb9 Mastodon 2.0: The Big Emoji Update] by [[Eugen Rochko]]
+* '''2017-10-19''' [official] [https://medium.com/@Gargron/mastodon-2-0-e93d9d28dbb9 Mastodon 2.0: The Big Emoji Update] by [[Eugen Rochko]]
-* '''2017-08-01''' [https://medium.com/@Gargron/m-for-mastodon-4269c0bf6c8b M for Mastodon] by [[Eugen Rochko]]
+* '''2017-08-01''' [official] [https://medium.com/@Gargron/m-for-mastodon-4269c0bf6c8b M for Mastodon] by [[Eugen Rochko]]
 * '''2017-07-07''' [https://www.lauraritchie.com/2017/07/07/connection-mastodon/ Connection: Meeting a Mastodon for Lunch (IRL)] ([https://mastodon.social/users/lauraritchie/updates/3636991 toot])
 * '''2017-06-15''' [https://cybre.space/users/cnc/updates/60081 I have to say that it's slightly irritating when new users (wrongly) imply that...]: some myths about Mastodon