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Mastodon is a free and open source, federated microblogging social network, that also has a REST API.

Mastodon is a free and open source microblogging network built as a decentralized federation of independently-operated servers. The server-side technology is Ruby on Rails, and the front end is written in JavaScript (React.js and Redux). It implements the ActivityPub and WebFinger protocols for interoperability with other social networks.

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Activitypub & Mastodon, how to get an Actor?

The question I'm currently trying to implement ActivityPub on my server to make it interoperate with mastodon. I got stuck trying to retrieve an actor from another mastodon instance. The actor contains things like the inbox, outbox, and the public…
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How to get Mastodon direct messages using Mastodon.py

I am trying to get direct messages from my Mastodon account using Mastodon.py. I am able to get everything on the timeline, but can't seem to return direct messages. Since direct messages are separate from the timeline (on the web interface), I am…
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How do I add jQuery to Mastodon 4.02 (using Rails 6 and Webpacker 4)?

I'm following this question from 2020 How do I use jQuery in Rails 6.0.3.3? , but I'm not able to add jQuery to Rails 6 and Webpacker 4 in Mastodon 4.02 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon However, I am able to add a custom.js file to load my…
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Where are the “range” and “functional” aspects of ActivityPub properties defined?

Activity Vocabulary has tables which indicate several aspects (meta-properties?) of each property defined in Activity Streams 2.0. These aspects include: functional — is it single-value, or not? range — indicates the type of value the property term…
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Unable to resolve hostname with docker-compose and podman

I am trying to deploy a mastodon server using this project: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon I am running Docker-Compose and Podman on a Fedora 33 server. $ docker-compose --version docker-compose version 1.27.4, build unknown $ docker…
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Adding jQuery to Rails 6 in Mastodon

I gave up trying to add jQuery to Mastodon 4.0.2 via Webpacker How do I add jQuery to Mastodon 4.02 (using Rails 6 and Webpacker 4)? So now I want to simply add a link to a jQuery CDN in the Mastodon header file application.html.haml. I add =…
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How to upload custom emoji in bulk

I am testing a #Mastodon instance and want to upload a set of emojis. Is there a way to do that? Or do I have to do it one by one? I understand I can copy the ones that appear on my federated feed, but I have a set of 110 custom emojis that I need…
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I get invalid_grant error for mastodon/mastodon.py. How do I do Oauth2 instead?

This code is taken almost verbatim from mastodon.py's README.md it always returns Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\matth\GitHub\feed_thing\again.py", line 32, in mastodon.log_in( File…
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New mastodon instance does not show any search results

I did setup a new mastodon instance by following their official documentation. Cloud provider: AWS OS: Ubuntu 20.04 mastodon version: tag v3.5.5 Everything looks good. I can sign up and publish toots. However, the instance seems isolated from the…
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How Mastodon Configured Login Using SSO

How Mastodon configure login using SSO, such as openid with keycloak? I search in Github and configure Mastodon follow this guide, but it doesn't work. This is my environment…
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Python Mastodon API gives same results for following and followers?

I am trying to get a list of people I follow, and a lost of people I am followed by, but the functions give the same number? myid = mastodon.account_verify_credentials()["id"] …
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Use node.js 'mastodon-api' to delete toot

I am struggling with a basic Mastodon API call - how to delete a toot. I am using the node.js 'mastodon-api' package. Here are the function declarations: const Mastodon = require('mastodon-api'); const mastodonInstance =…
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Command to use curl to add users to a Mastodon list?

I'm moving to a new Mastodon instance and would like to re-create my old lists on my new server. I've tried curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer MYTOKEN" https://fosstodon.org/api/v1/lists/LISTID/accounts/?account_ids[]=ACCOUNTID but I'm getting…
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How to force github/gitlab markdown to keep a rel="me" anchor attribute?

How to force github/gitlab markdown to keep a rel="me" anchor attribute? Consider the very simple markdown fragment.