Zoom on mastodon
by snonov
Table des matières
- First links to have a look at
- Mastodon server and instances
- Mastodon people to follow
- Some tech opinions about Mastodon
- Tech part of Mastodon
First links to have a look at
Mastodon website https://joinmastodon.org/fr
Mastodon documentation : https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
Mastodon Github repository https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
Eugen Rochko, Mastodon core developer https://github.com/Gargron
Le github Awesome Mastodon links https://github.com/tleb/awesome-mastodon
A guide to Mastodon (for Twitter users) moving from twitter to mastodon
Article https://2ality.com/2022/10/mastodon-getting-started.html
Foundation and Fediverse https://thenewstack.io/social-web-foundation-launched-how-in-is-w3c-on-fediverse/
Mastodon server and instances
List of existing Mastodon servers
https://joinmastodon.org/fr/servers
https://instances.social/list
Some developer dedicated instances
https://fosstodon.org/about
https://toot.cafe/about
https://developer.social/about
https://foojay.social/about
https://hachyderm.io/about
Statistic usage
- Account publishing stats https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount
- Github repository https://github.com/gallizoltan/usercount
Mastodon people to follow
Java people to follow (twitter, mastodon, github, reddit accounts)
https://javabubble.org/
Tool to help find people from your Twitter contact
https://github.com/lucahammer/fedifinder
https://github.com/pruvisto/debirdify
Some news and tech opinions about Mastodon
Eugen Rochko interview, the man behind Mastodon
https://www.wired.com/story/the-man-behind-mastodon-eugen-rochko-built-it-for-this-moment/
Martin Fowler on Mastodon
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-mastodon.html#twitter-feed-to-mastodon-is-now-working
Tim Bray opinion about Mastodon
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/30/Mastodon-Privacy-and-Search
Opinion about Mastodon and moderation “What I missed about Mastodon was its very different culture.”
https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html
View of Fediverse, difference between centralized, decentralized, distributed
https://tidbits.com/2023/01/27/is-your-future-distributed-welcome-to-the-fediverse/
Consequences and implicaiton using ActivityPub
https://macwright.com/2022/12/09/activitypub.html
Guillaume Laforge (French google tech advocate)
Article
Devoxx talk video
Tim Bray about Fediverse governance
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/06/24/Fediverse-Governance
Tim Bray about hater on Mastodon
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/07/30/Invisible-Attackers
News in finance model and protocol for Mastodon and Bluesky
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/01/14/Protocol-Churn
Tech news about usage of ActivityPub
- Blue print Gitlab et ActivityPub : https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/activity_pub/
- Meta et ActivityPub : https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/
Tech part of Mastodon
ActivityPub protocol
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub
https://activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/
https://fediverse.party/en/tools/
Federation of social media using ActivityPub
https://fediverse.party/
https://blog.zedas.fr/posts/le-fediverse/
Mastodon API
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/
Example of Java implementation
https://github.com/msummers/activityPub4j
https://github.com/mixednutz/activitypub-java-api
Java wrapper for the Mastodon API
https://github.com/zyuiop/mastodon-java
https://github.com/hecateball/mastodon4j
https://github.com/bitterfox/mastodon4j
https://github.com/uakihir0/msinstance4j
https://github.com/EzioisAwesome56/Masto4j
Pyton wrapper for the Mastodon API
https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py
Mastodon desktop client
https://github.com/NicolasConstant/sengi
Tuto, build a Mastodon bot (using Python)
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/08/easy-guide-to-building-mastodon-bots/
Projects around :
RSS to Twitter and Mastodon : https://github.com/tonytw1/rsstotwitter