More than a web client for Mastodon, Mastodon Scheduler is a web application, one that lets you schedule toots to be posted at a later date. Halcyon is good if you want to enjoy the simplicity of the good, old Twitter look and feel ( Figure 1) – from back when Twitter actually looked good.įigure 1: Halcyon is a web client that makes your Mastodon feed look like the old Twitter. That said, there are more web clients out there. It comes with a lot of features, so many that I dedicated a large chunk of last month's article to explaining all of Mastodon's ins and outs. Your first interaction with Mastodon is probably going to be through this. To begin with, there is Mastodon's own default web interface. This has led to a whole gaggle of web clients, desktop and mobile apps, and command-line tools for Mastodon. Thanks to Mastodon's open and simple API, you can easily write scripts to interact with your account. It comes with none of the shady shenanigans proprietary platforms inflict upon their users, and it looks slick, cool, and attractive. Mastodon, a microblogging platform á la Twitter, is succeeding because it is simple to use, while at the same time packed with features. Last issue, I introduced the Fediverse and, in particular, what is becoming the rising star in the federated universe: Mastodon.
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