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Feels like I keep hearing about new FOSS tools and services interfacing with Mastodon every day.
I need some place to keep track of them.
- https://github.com/toelke/mastodon2rss - Serve your mastodon home feed to RSS (including boosts!)
- https://rstockm.github.io/mastothread - split your long text into bitesize posts. Via @vicgrinberg.
- https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends
- https://streetpass.social a browser extension that helps you find Mastodon users as you browse
- https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon - a collection of various lists of academics on Mastodon servers.
Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!
A site that shows Fediverse servers status. Cool.
This unofficial guide to the Fediverse is also really good
https://fedi.tips
More good introductions to the Fediverse keep popping up:
Sorry about the mangled toot earlier!
I just figured out how to send any note I make in my Shaarli instance to my Mastodon and Twitter feeds. Awesome! Now I can keep my content on my own site, but still share it with silos like Twitter.
https://shaarli.chepec.se/shaare/YSJ_Cg
Trying to apply the idea of POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) to my own posting. Here I'll summarise my results.
Automatically tweet public links I add to Shaarli (this would be a very convenient solution). But did not work because Twitter now requires you to jump through hoops to get access to the Twitter API from within your own Twitter account! Most egregiously, there is no way to complete their application procedure without handing over and verifying your phone number. Not doing that, Twitter can forget about it.
I still liked the idea of using Shaarli as my canonical source, so to speak, so let's look into Shaarli -> Mastodon instead. Alright, that's awesome and works great (well, unfortunately my Mastodon instance does not render Markdown, but that's not shaarli2mastodon's fault - I'll just have to avoid using Markdown in Shaarli notes posted to Mastodon).
With Shaarli -> Mastodon working, let's explore whether Lond's Mastodon <-> Twitter cross-poster can tweet our toots.
And yes, indeed, that worked right away. All I had to do was authorize the app on both my Mastodon and Twitter accounts. It needs lot of permissions, but hey, at least its source code is public, and it's even possible to self-host it.
That's positively awesome! I can now select to post any Shaarli note to Mastodon, and doing so will automatically
cross-post the same to Twitter too. Well done, POSSE!
- micro.blog is perhaps a nice alternative to self-hosting, and allows cross-posting to Twitter, Mastodon, et al.
- github.com/AmauryCarrade/MastodonToTwitter is another software project, but may be broken (last commit over a year ago, with an open issue that looks worrying)
- https://github.com/renatolond/mastodon-twitter-poster
- https://github.com/bitkeks/mastodon-to-twitter
- https://github.com/yogthos/mastodon-bot
- https://p.xuv.be/how-to-transition-from-twitter-to-mastodon
- https://tantek.com/2023/296/t1/posse-syndicate-link-reply
- https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-adoption
Seems there is a new kid on the block: moa.
Ok, so this video is a few years old, but it does not have anywhere near the views it deserves. It's never too late to do reproducible science! (Video 1m 44s)
Reproducible science not only reduce errors, but speeds up the process of re-running your analysis and auto-generate updated documents with the results.