Subj : Re: Mastodon / Fediverse
To   : Warpslide
From : AKAcastor
Date : Thu Jun 06 2024 11:30:04

 AK> Toot - a CLI and TUI tool for interacting with Mastodon instances from
 AK> the command line.
 AK> https://github.com/ihabunek/toot

 W> This is the one I use to post weather to my Mastodon 
 W> account (as well as the joke & horoscope bots), I also 
 W> use it to delete old weather posts.  It would be simple 
 W> enough to post a "Warpslide has logged into Another 
 W> Millennium" message with this utility.

I see your weather reports regularly and hadn't even considered that you had automated it. :)

Great idea for the login notices!  Especially since it would be so straightforward to setup.

 W> The Mastodon instance I use has a 500 character limit 
 W> for posts, as does mastodon.social, so I'm not sure if 
 W> gating FTN messages out to Mastodon would be practical.

Good point.  I think the character limit is set per-instance (I sometimes see very long posts from other instances) but when I post on mastodon.social I do run into the post limits.  So I guess either character limits would need to be known/enforced on the BBS end (or messages just get cut off if too long), or any gateway would need to be connected to a mastodon server with larger post limits.  (I think I lean toward 'keep the messages short'.)


Chris/akacastor

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