Difference between revisions of "Mastodon"

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About

Mastodon is web server software which provides a user interface to the GNU Social-compatible fediverse. It is written in Ruby and JavaScript.

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Pages

Mastodon instance: a brief definition
people: a directory

Forks

Apps

/Tusky (GitHub)

Local Notes

Woozle

Links

official

Twitter

reference

Wikipedia
Mastodon instances: an automated list of all known Mastodon instances, with technical ratings
Instance Recommendations (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

issues

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

web tools

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

code tools

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

how to: users

Toot How-To : Intro to Mastodon by Ginny McQueen (also: Medium)
#woollyweek: another user intro to the Mastoverse
Resources for Mastodon newbies (via)
Giving social networking back to you: ostensibly steps you through the process of getting a Mastodon account, but doesn't make it at all easy to decide on an instance

how to: technical

Mastodon Production Guide: a walk through of the setup process
- Updating Mastodon (via author): upgrading an instance to a new version
How to install a Mastodon instance on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

discussion

2017-08-01 M for Mastodon by Eugen Rochko (primary Mastodon developer)
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)
2017-04-04 Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?

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

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 * '''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
+* '''2017-05-07''' [https://fox.blue/archives/2017/05/07/one-week-of-mastodon One Week of Mastodon]
 * '''2017-04-23''' [https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616 Mourning Mastodon] ([https://icosahedron.website/@u2764/956525 share] [https://icosahedron.website/users/u2764/updates/36054 and])
 * '''2017-04-09'''