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evenwicht
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evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org Joined: 2024-07-01 |
Toot (CLI+TUI)Toot is a standalone app. help pageAuthentication: TUI: Read: Post: Status: Accounts: Hashtags: To get help for each command run: Bitlbee (IRC backend)This is great if you already use an IRC client like IRSSI. Each Mastodon account can be logged in with its own “window” (which in IRSSI just means another text screen). Bitlbee is by far the fastest and easiest to post from if you have many accounts. But there is a msg size limitation because IRC inherently has a line size limit of like ~394 characters, which becomes a cap regardless of what the server supports. Bitlbee is actually a large collection of middleware plugins for different IM platforms like ICQ, Skype, Jabber, Matrix, etc. The Mastodon plugin comes from kensanata. It has a slight compatibility issue with some Mastodon servers. So if you connect to ten different servers, maybe half of them will work just fine and half will neglect to show you your own messages. Consider it experimental. Bitlbee is now in the official Debian repos so you might as well install it. But I don’t know if Kensanada’s plugin became part of the official release yet. When I first installed it, it was a manual process. Mastodon Archive (CLI)This is also a kensanata tool. It’s purely for backups. It’s also hit or miss depending on which server it connects to. But it’s indispensible as it gives you an easy way to periodically grab a backup copy of messages to you (mentions) and from you, which is searchable offline. Voting not implementedOne limitation of both Bitlbee and Toot is neither of them have implemented any aspect of voting interaction. You cannot make a poll and you cannot vote in polls. But both tools at least give you a way to /view/ the voting results. Bitlbee may have a hacker option: you can free-type API calls. Thus perhaps possible to vote and make polls if you know the API well. We could really use a text-based tool dedicated to voting. For me it’s an unmet need. |
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