Bookmarks tagged OpenSource and Mastodon

"Timeline algorithms should be useful for people, not for companies. Their quality should not be evaluated in terms of how much more time people spend on a platform, but rather in terms of how well they serve their users’ purposes. Objectives might differ, from delving deeper into a topic to connecting with like-minded communities, solving a problem or just passing time until the bus arrives. How these objectives are reached might differ too, e.g. while respecting instances’ bandwidth, one’s own as well as others’ privacy, algorithm trustworthiness and software licenses.

This blueprint introduces an approach to personal, local timeline algorithms that people can either run out-of-the-box or customize."

TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys

Mastodon CLI & TUI

Import a Twitter archive into a Mastodon database.

View mastodon from Miiverse on your Nintendo 3DS

FeeDon is a simple service that converts your Mastodon timelines into RSS feeds. In essense, it enables you to use your RSS reader as a Mastodon client, nicely formatting your home, local, federated, and list timelines into Atom feeds.

A mastodon client optimized for reading, with an AI-enabled algorithm for displaying posts

Maintenance tasks for the Mastodon software to clean up the database and save memory.

Performs regular cleanup tasks for the Mastodon system. It removes remote accounts, unreferenced statuses, obsolete thumbnails and media attachments, and updates the Elasticsearch index.