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Top 23 Mastodon Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-14
This has lead to a delightful variety of custom clients like https://phanpy.social/ - https://elk.zone/ is another example that I really like.
It's the complete opposite of the Twitter API situation, where they locked their API down and killed the entire ecosystem of third-party clients.
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Project mention: IceCubesApp: Fast, lightweight and multiplatform SwiftUI Mastodon client | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-30
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Honestly if a server allows free login, then it shouldn't matter how the donations are spent, the admins are probably at a loss anyway. I've seen large phpBB forums run on donations for a long time, so maybe federated socials can work too. One unfortunate thing I've noticed from running a single-user GoToSocial instance is that it consumes a lot of storage, I'm getting 8Gb just from myself and the instances I follow. This could be brought down with more agressive cache settings, but it still shows that people using these new social media still have habits from Twitter or Reddit, where bandwidth and storage is paid for by advertisers, and don't realize how many gigabytes they're casually moving around. I really hope this won't be the downfall of the Fediverse.
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Project mention: Reddit is Fun will shut down on June 30th in response to Reddit API changes | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-08
It's worth noting that Reddit's own app uses their official API. The whole thing is OAuth2. They could have easily just said "Only Reddit Gold users can use external apps" and have avoided all this fracas.
Now, it would take very little for someone to dig around and find the official Reddit API keys (OpenID/OAuth2 client key/secret) and just impersonate the official Reddit apps. I would never suggest that someone do some googling and discover threads like https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/issues/147... where such things are discussed.
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Tusky (version 24.0): A multi account client for the social network Mastodon
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Project mention: Does anyone know how to change the theme back to the normal dark mode instead of true contrast? I updated the iOS app and it changed it to dark contrast and I am unable to change it back for some reason | /r/Mastodon | 2023-04-30
Looks like it got removed
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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Project mention: A simple way to understand federation: with one user account you can participate in multiple servers, not needing to sign up on them separately. That's literally it. | /r/RedditAlternatives | 2023-06-21
The Fediverse is inherently difficult to understand and use. Their documentation, sadly, is written as a sales pitch for the federation piece of it, but doesn’t make it simple to understand. This summary is better, but parts of the explanation still don’t make sense when trying to access content. I couldn’t figure out how to see Mastodon toots from other servers, as an example.
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I wish there was an alternative to the Internet Archive with collaborative curation. You share files and people who tag and sort them into albums can download them. And if it was federated it could be just as extensive as the Internet Archive by searching files on many instances at the same time. Sadly the closest thing are ArchiveBox and wayback which won't replace the Internet Archive.
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Project mention: Little File Explorer – ~40KB File Manager for Android 1.0 and Above | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-27
Mastodon app is built like that, the release apk is around 3 Mb, ~half of which is resources: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android
Though it's not without compromises — because of Google's stupid policy that "nothing goes into the system unless it needs direct access to privileged or private system components", RecyclerView, ViewPager, and some other basic UI components are still AndroidX libraries that depend on AppCompat for no good reason. I had to fork them to rid them of that dependency: https://github.com/grishka/LiteX
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Sounds like toot?
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PS: Misc. other resources - Mastodon 101, An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon, Mastodon Official Help Guide, Some Tips & Tricks, How to grow your presence, More Tips & Tricks, and probably most useful .... on Reddit there's /r/Mastodon
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Project mention: Trying out mastodon (again). Questions + account & hashtag recommendations. | /r/Mastodon | 2023-07-06
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Project mention: Deploy 90 open-source web apps with one Docker command | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-08
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Project mention: Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-14
This has lead to a delightful variety of custom clients like https://phanpy.social/ - https://elk.zone/ is another example that I really like.
It's the complete opposite of the Twitter API situation, where they locked their API down and killed the entire ecosystem of third-party clients.
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pingme
PingMe is a CLI which provides the ability to send messages or alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
The latest post mention was on 2024-04-14.
Mastodon related posts
- Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
- Threads on Mastodon and the Bright Future of the Fediverse
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- External OpenID Connect Account Takeover by Email Change
- Ask HN: Best practice for posting links to large Mastodon threads?
- DOStodon, the MS-DOS Mastodon Client
- CVE-2024-23832 Mastodon Vulnerability: Remote user impersonation and takeover
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Mastodon projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mastodon | 45,826 |
| 2 | elk | 5,052 |
| 3 | IceCubesApp | 4,607 |
| 4 | gotosocial | 3,424 |
| 5 | Twidere-Android | 2,755 |
| 6 | Tusky | 2,383 |
| 7 | mastodon-ios | 1,972 |
| 8 | documentation | 1,692 |
| 9 | wayback | 1,642 |
| 10 | mastodon-android | 1,592 |
| 11 | toot | 1,096 |
| 12 | pinafore | 1,022 |
| 13 | GuideToMastodon | 906 |
| 14 | academics-on-mastodon | 885 |
| 15 | awesome-mastodon | 869 |
| 16 | Mastodon.py | 864 |
| 17 | awesome-stacks | 828 |
| 18 | phanpy | 780 |
| 19 | iKy | 755 |
| 20 | pingme | 713 |
| 21 | masto.js | 703 |
| 22 | megalodon | 532 |
| 23 | sengi | 517 |
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