Mastodon is in the news again; huge numbers are joining after Musk bought twitter. Here are some notes on what it is, what’s the mystery, and how to join it. …<\/p>\n
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toot<\/code>; it has a number of command line arguments<\/a>, it seems to store the login parameters on the disk; you must login interactively the first time. It’s code is here<\/a>, and web page is here<\/a>, its available afaik in the raspbian repos. I asked about direct messages<\/a>, and was pointed at the mastodon documentation<\/a>. Here is the short cut, toot --visibility direct \"@username message text\".<\/code><\/li>\n- There are lots of apps to help you use it, Best Mastodon Apps download for android<\/a>\u00a0and 5 Best Mastodon Clients for Ubuntu and Other Linux<\/a> from debug point.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Despite the exposure of the ‘federation’ functionality on the , it appears this is a developer or service engineer function. The best definition of federation I have seen is that, it’s like email, we don’t all join one email service and yet anyone with an email address can receive emails. Choosing a service\/instance is a bit like choosing an email provider!<\/p>\n
To get started just join it. Try and choose a short user name as mastodon adds the instance name to it.<\/p>\n