mastotui is a minimal, distraction-free terminal client for Mastodon built with Ratatui.
It lets you read your home timeline and interact with posts without leaving the terminal.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Read the Mastodon home timeline.
- View individual posts and their authors.
- Create new posts.
- Reply to posts.
- Boost posts.
- Favourite posts.
- Navigate using keyboard controls.
- Authenticates with Mastodon instances using OAuth 2.0.
- Stores credentials securely in the system keyring.
Website: github.com/dougfinnie/mastotui
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Developer: Doug Finnie
License: MIT License or Apache-2.0
mastotui is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Mastodon Clients | |
|---|---|
| toot | CLI and TUI client written in Python |
| Mastui | Built with Python and the powerful Textual framework |
| mastodon.el | Emacs client for Mastodon |
| tut | Command-line interface written in Go |
| tootstream | Python-based command-line interface |
| Gomphotherium | Provides a CLI as well as a TUI |
| madonctl | Golang command line interface for the Mastodon API |
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