Mastodon
People Finders #
Movetodon: Find your Twitter Friends on MastodonTwitodon- Followgraph for Mastodon - This one finds people you follow to find new people to...follow.
Instances #
FediBlock is a list of instances that you should avoid (or block if you're an instance admin)
Bugle is a self-hosted ActivityPub server I built.
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.
- strangeobject.space
- FlipScreen
- handmade.social
Misc Instances #
- https://mastodon.macstories.net - MacStories own instance for the team. Hopefully we see more sites do this in the future.
- https://relayfm.social/ - Same as MacStories but for Relay.fm
- botsin.space - bot-friendly instance
- 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
- activitypub.network
Setting up webfinger and ActivityPub #
Setting up a webfinger for Mastodon allows anyone to search you@yourdomain.com and it point to your mastodon account
- Building an ActivityPub Server
- 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 #
Browser Extensions #
- StreetPass for Mastodon
- Homecoming for Mastodon Safari extension
- stefanbohacek/mastodon-tools: Making Mastodon easier to use.
Sharing and Crossposting #
- Echo - RSS Cross Poster
- Mastodon Share
- Share on Mastodon button
- MastoFeed - Send your RSS Feeds to Mastodon
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
- FeedSeer
- Quintessence - Top links on your instance
- feditrends
Search #
- Searchtodon: Private Timeline Search for Mastodon - A no longer running experiment
- Tootfinder - opt-in search
Links #
- bird.makeup - Home Page - This allows you to follow Twitter users on Mastodon. Not sure how well it works.
- toot.pics - show photo alt text
- Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet!
- Mastodon instance custom emoji list
- Change or Switch servers on Mastodon: Step-by-step guide
- Mastodon miscellany - All this
- Automating your Mastodon profile with Pipedream.com | Stefan Bohacek
- joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon: An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon
- muesli/mastotool: A collection of command-line tools to work with your Mastodon account
- andy-blum/fed-embed: A highly customizable, lightweight mastodon feed embed component
- Gaelan/minifedi: Run a tiny fediverse on your machine for testing, with no fuss.
- Mastopoet - Mastodon post screenshot tool
- Fediverse Export Analyzer