Subj : Mastodon / Fediverse
To   : Deon
From : AKAcastor
Date : Wed Jun 05 2024 07:26 pm

 d> If there is an API to these social platforms (which I 
 d> think there is), the effort to add it to clrghouz should 
 d> be quite minimal. If somebody has one of these running, 
 d> then I'm happy to have a crack to see if it would work 
 d> and what it might look like. I know somebody in fidonet 
 d> did it for telegram.

I saw that there's a Fido <> Telegram bridge but I haven't actually looked at how it works.  I do use Telegram for chat, but I don't really understand the Fidonet integration (but I do know Telegram supports a lot of features I'm not using).

Discord integration may be another target?  Is anyone running something like that already?

There are docs for the Mastodon API here:
(the "Developing Mastodon Apps" section on the left has links to further information)
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/public/

I've just started looking into this, so I am not familiar with much of it yet.

Some other Mastodon clients that were mentioned by @philpem@digipres.club when I asked about BBS integration in a Mastodon post:

tootstream - A command line interface for interacting with Mastodon instances written in Python (requires Python 3).
https://github.com/magicalraccoon/tootstream

Tut - a TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys. The program has most of the features you can find in the web client.
https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut

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

 d> My initial thoughts werent to open up all echos to 
 d> social platforms (I'm thinking that is just looking for 
 d> trouble - but it would be up to the ZC I guess), but 
 d> maybe some specialised echos might be a useful idea 
 d> (like a "help" to get bbs environment going, or problem 
 d> diagnosis etc..).

I agree that the best move isn't to gate all echoes (I can't decide if there should be an -es or just -s) to other platforms.

I'm definitely curious about different ways integration could be done - I think there is potential in an echomail gateway but I'm not sure what the trade-offs will be when it comes to gating posts from the fediverse.

I haven't looked into Lemmy and its API at all yet.


Chris/akacastor

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