Toot is a graphical Mastodon client designed for the COSMIC desktop environment.
It provides access to home, explore, local and federated timelines as well as notifications. Users can reply to posts, boost content, add favourites, view profiles, open media attachments, and follow links from posts.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Access home, explore, local, and federated timelines.
- View Mastodon notifications.
- Reply to posts.
- Boost and favourite posts.
- View account information.
- Display media attachments.
- Open links and link cards.
- Native integration with the COSMIC desktop.
- Written in Rust using libcosmic.
Website: github.com/cosmic-utils/toot
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Developer: Eduardo Flores
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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