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Ryan Heuser Feb 10, 2023

Introducing my hobby coding project since xmas:

Mastotron!

It's a different interface to Mastodon, replacing the mindless "feed" of most social media with a network map of conversations and recent and popular posts.

👉 You can download it here: https://github.com/quadrismegistus/mastotron 🖖

There's easy, double-click installation for Mac and Linux; Windows is a bit trickier for now.

This is b new, so bound to be bugs. But if you can, give it a whirl, and let me know if it works and what you'd like to see!

GitHub - quadrismegistus/mastotron: A different interface to mastodon, and other experiments in social media

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リーハイ Feb 10, 2023

@heuser This is pretty neat. My main gripe is that keyboard commands in a generally mouse-heavy interface is awkward. Maybe a set of play/pause/next buttons at the top of the window instead of typing 'N' and 'P' and then 'D' could be replaced with a context button when you hover over a post.

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Mastotron Feb 12, 2023

@lehi @heuser This is a really good point. Wanted to mention that right-clicking will do the (C) action of pulling in context/replies. But it'd be nice to have a mouse/click solution to each of the actions. Got an issue for that now (attrib your post you but lmk if you want that removed): https://github.com/mastotron/mastotron/issues/21

Making mouse/click equivalents for all keyboard actions · Issue #21 · mastotron/mastotron

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