Andrew Randall 🇺🇦for those of you who live in the terminal, toot is a really well executed text-based #Mastodon client.
$ brew install toot
$ toot login
$ toot tui
$ brew install toot
$ toot login
$ toot tui
Maartje@ahrkrak this is what i love about mastodon, we all find a setup we like that is different 😄 Just like IRC
Dr. Fyzziks@ahrkrak I really like toot. All it’s missing for that perfect 80s feel is the ability to automatically render images as BBS-style ASCII art 😀
@drfyzziks yes! There’s a library for that, right? Shouldn’t be hard to add in…
@ahrkrak Yes! There are definitely several libraries that do that. I checked toot’s issue queue and there’s a feature request for full image support (in terminals that support it). But nothing about ASCII art. Might log a feature request, or if it’s quiet work-wise today, maybe I’ll take a look myself.
Aleks@ahrkrak @drfyzziks
one of them is https://sourceforge.net/projects/aa-project/ - it is also possible to use it for video content.
one of them is https://sourceforge.net/projects/aa-project/ - it is also possible to use it for video content.
AA project
Download AA project for free. AA means Ascii Art - the AAlib (ascii art GFX library), BB (audiovisual demonstration for your terminal), aview (image browser/animation player), AAvga (SVGAlib wrapper for AA-lib), ttyquake (text mode quake), aa3d (random dot stereogram generator)...
Cypherfox@drfyzziks @ahrkrak …and download speeds so slow, you could read all content as it was loaded.
But a text based social network client still is nice
@cypherfox @ahrkrak Somebody posted a link awhile back about a tool they wrote that slows down anything you pipe to it to dial-up speeds. I thought I had bookmarked it but can’t find it now … will have to dig it up.
Dio9sys@ahrkrak
Here's the github repo so folks can find various Linux flavors and documentation: https://github.com/ihabunek/toot
Here's the github repo so folks can find various Linux flavors and documentation: https://github.com/ihabunek/toot
Frederic Branczyk 
Nelson@ahrkrak I personally prefer tut, but both are good: https://tut.anv.nu/
Tut is written in Go, for those who care, and the maintainer is very responsive to bug reports / feature requests.
Sean Blakey@skyfaller @ahrkrak And I'm also enjoying running tootstream, which is more CLI than TUI. Differently good.
Erkan Yanar@nova saved my day \o/
Ziege Almuth@ahrkrak In my former life I was working as programmmer. Looks a little bit like cobol on 3270 terminals 😂
JA Samitier@ahrkrak sweeet!!!
Jon G Stødle@ahrkrak I’m a sucker for a TUI
Mike Amundsen
Synchron@ahrkrak Is there a refresh key i have not seen? The tui seams to only load on start...
@synchron i haven’t seen one either. Not sure if that’s “deliberate design decision” or “PRs welcome!”
Bruno Miguel (@[email protected])
@[email protected] this one is nice for scripting actions to interact with Mastodon, but it lacks the ability to auto-refresh the timelines. For that, I prefer tut https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut
Jeff S. Hunter@ahrkrak This is the tech I have been looking for…
cerebraltangent
Abdelkader Madoui 
@ahrkrak as is the tradition, can we rewrite it in Rust?
@prussianvelvet only if you tell everyone very loudly about it being written in Rust.
Wojciech (Voitek) Aniszewski@ahrkrak
or 'apt install toot', for that matter. it's good, thanks!
or 'apt install toot', for that matter. it's good, thanks!
Rafael Caziraghi