Mastodon

About

Mastodon is web server software which provides a user interface to the OStatus and ActivityPub fediverses. It is written in Ruby and JavaScript.

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

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Pages

• Mastodon instance: a brief definition
• people: a directory

Forks

• Toot.Cat
  • GitHub
• glitch-soc
  • GitHub

Apps

• /Tusky (GitHub)

Local Notes

• Woozle

Links

official

• Twitter

reference

• Wikipedia
• The Mastodon Wiki (not sure who runs this)
• 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

discussion

• 2017-11-30 Update and retrospective
• 2017-10-19 Mastodon 2.0: The Big Emoji Update by Eugen Rochko
• 2017-08-01 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)
• 2017-04-04 Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?

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

issues

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

service providers

• masto.host: hosting for Mastodon instances; they provide maintenance

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

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