Mastodon

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

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

Local Notes

• Woozle

Links

reference

• Wikipedia
• Mastodon instances: an automated list of all known Mastodon instances, with technical ratings
• 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

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
• 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

discussion

• 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
• 2017-04-23 Mourning Mastodon (share and)
• 2017-04-09 What I wish I knew before joining Mastodon (via)

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