AlexI was giving mastodon.el a try but did not get very far. Here is what I got in the Messages buffer:
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Contacting host: mastodon.social:443
Loading Mastodon account anip on https://mastodon.social...
Package tls is deprecated
It didn't return any timeline.
Will someone point me in the right direction? I am a new emacs user and I am using spacemacs.