Mastodon
People Finders #
- Movetodon: Find your Twitter Friends on Mastodon
- Twitodon
- Followgraph for Mastodon - This one finds people you follow follow to find new people to...follow.
Instances #
These are instances I see a lot of people using and/or I find interesting.
- https://social.lol - The instance I use. This is part of omg.lol which costs $20 a year.
- https://indieweb.social - A developer/open web-focused instance, a lot of my Twitter friends are on this one.
- https://mastodon.design - Design focused.
- https://indieapps.space - Exclusively for accounts dedicated to apps. Lots of cool indie apps on here.
- https://mastodon.macstories.net - MacStories own instance for the team. Hopefully we see more sites do this in the future.
- botsin.space - bot-friendly instance
- https://masthead.social/about
- me.dm by Medium.com
Other lists of instances #
- https://instances.social/ helps you choose an instance, also has an API.
- A list of Mastodon Instances — coxy
Setting up webfinger #
Setting up a webfinger for Mastodon allows anyone to search you@yourdomain.com and it point to your mastodon account
- Configure Eleventy to Host a Custom Mastodon Alias – ReverentGeek
- Use your own user @ domain for Mastodon discoverability with the WebFinger Protocol without hosting a server - Scott Hanselman's Blog
- Alias your mastodon account to your own domain with Netlify redirect
- Alias your Mastodon username to your own domain with Jekyll | Phil Nash
Web clients #
Apps #
- Metatext
- Ivory
- tooot
- Homecoming for Mastodon Safari extension
- Quintessence - Top links on your instance
- MastoFeed - Send your RSS Feeds to Mastodon
- Mastodon Share
Digest Tools #
- hodgesmr/mastodon_digest: A Python script that aggregates recent popular posts from your Mastodon timeline
- mauforonda/mastodon_digest: A Python script that aggregates recent popular tweets from your Mastodon timeline
- mauforonda/mastodon_email_digest: Scans posts you haven't yet seen in your mastodon timeline and sends the most popular ones to your inbox
Links #
- bird.makeup - Home Page - This allows you to follow Twitter users on Mastodon. Not sure how well it works.
- Searchtodon: Private Timeline Search for Mastodon - A no longer running experiment
- toot.pics - show photo alt text