Archive for the ‘Mastodon’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/21
Earlier this year, someone mentioned Mastofeed. Then I found there are two kinds of Mastofeeds. Both have their own domain and their own repository. Both are free, so I wonder what their business models are as something or somebody needs to be the product. Both have to do with feeds and the ActivityPub protocol of the Fediverse (which mainly consists of Mastodon servers, but other types of servers are still growing). Both can be self-hosted. Both their directions and audience differs.
In short:
- mastofeed.org (mentioned to me first) is uses RSS as feed and posts entries to the Fediverse
- mastofeed.com (found later) uses Fediverse as feed and exposes entries as an HTML iframe using an HTTP API
Some more links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/15
Idea: create an Apple ][ bot for Mastodon like BBC Micro Bot
Regrettably, I don’t have the energy to pull this off myself, cancer was a bitch and I have less than half the energy I used fo have, but for anyone interested here are some links that could get you started:
On BBC emulation and BBC Micro Bot:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/07
[Wayback/Archive] OverheidEdits (@OverheidEdits@botsin.space) – botsin.space
Deze Twitter-bot waarschuwt je als de Nederlandse overheid anoniem Wikipedia-artikelen wijzigt.
OverheidEdits begon ooit in 2014 op Twitter, maar is in 2023 noodgedwongen verhuisd naar Mastodon.
Beheerd door @koen@koenvangilst.nl. Gebaseerd op oorspronkelijke idee en broncode van Ed Summers (@edsu).
This user moved from overheidsedits@maakr.social.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/23
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/22
A while back (actually: a long time ago), in JavaScript Bookmarklet to enable Mastodon publishing for a WordPress.com post that is edited in the Classic Editor I promised to improve that code.
Actually I did improve the gist, but I forgot to write the blog post on it.
So below is the old code, new code, and explanation of the improvements.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/15
Since Elon is trying to burn some USD 44 billion as rapidly as possible, many on-line communities that grew big on Twitter are now trying to re-establish themselves on other social network services.
One of them is Mastodon, the Fediverse based federated or distributed social network.
Like Twitter (or maybe “unlike Twitter”, because of the tremendous API charges for Twitter bots) Mastodon bots can be of tremendous help on spreading awareness of a community.
One example is [Wayback/Archive] bitbonk/DotNetSocialBot: A Mastodon bot that can boost a community running at [Wayback/Archive] .NET Bot :dotnet: (@bot@dotnet.social) which helps boosting the .NET community on Mastodon (quite a few harrdore .NET developers have an account on [Wayback/Archive] dotnet.social, but you can follow the bot from any Mastodon server: the virtue of a distributed social network).
It is written in quite a generic way, and founded on a solid framework, which means it is easy to extend to other communities. Heck, it might be even be easy to generalise it into a highly configurable universal community bot!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/29
Quintessence shows you the top links that the people that you follow on Mastodon tooted or boosted in the last hours and the most notable toots that appeared in your timeline.
In order to work it just needs read permissions for your account.
You can allow this by specifying your instance in the text box below and clicking “Authorize”.
Quintessence is a static site, all its code runs on the device that you are using to read these lines. No data leaves your browser nor is being shared with anyone.
[Wayback/Archive] https://quintsns.pianeta.uno/ is on my list of tools to try and make Mastodon more manageable for me.
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/08
[Wayback/Archive] Mastodon Flock
Welcome to the Mastodon Flock installation wizard.
This program will guide you through finding your Twitter contacts on the Fediverse, provided they have added their external contact information on their profile name, description, URL or pinned Tweet.
It is open source in the repository [Wayback/Archive] WesSouza/mastodon-flock: Let the birds flock to Mastodon.
I love the retro Windows 95 Installer look which is even continued in the [Wayback/Archive] About (“how this software works”), and [Wayback/Archive] Privacy Policy:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/24
You can find the binary files sound files of the Mastodon beep sound at
They were created by [Wayback/Archive] Josef Kenny (blog: [Wayback/Archive] josef.one; Mastodon “i made that mastodon boop sound”: [Wayback/Archive] josef (@jk@mastodon.social) – Mastodon) early 2017 and updated with metadata later that year. In 2022 it became clear that using the sound is allowed as long as there is credit:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/31
Meer info: [Wayback/Archive] …. (@jmvtol.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Het bericht over de aanvaring tussen Jean Marc van Tol en het BSKY moderatie-team – hij kwam op de blacklist vanwege een bericht waarvan het op zijn minst discutabel is of hij daarvoor 4 strafpunten hoort te krijgen met daardoor automatisch een 3-daagse ban – stop hij op dat medium.
Kennelijk mag je daar niet uiten dat je blij zou zijn wanneer Trump hemelt: dat wordt geschaard onder dood wensen¹.
Het Fokke en Sukke account is er inmiddels leeg: [Wayback/Archive] Fokke & Sukke (@fokkesukke.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Maar zowel Jean Marc als Fokke en Sukke blijven actief op onder andere Mastodon, zie de linkjes in [Wayback/Archive] Post by @wiert.bsky.social — Bluesky:
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