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Bassam is a free Arab social network that allows you to join the Fediverse and escape from the dictatorial and oppressive social platform.
It runs on Rebased which is a a Fediverse backend written in Elixir, compatible with the Mastodon API.
[...] Reddit cut off public access to Pushshift this summer, so Redditmap.social can only use data generated early this year.
From the blog post "How Big is YouTube?" by Ethan Zuckerman.
It really is time to learn to use a more open platform, preferably a Fediverse-compatible one.
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:
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.