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Tooters: A Rust TUI-based Mastodon App

Tooters is a Rust-based Terminal User Interface (TUI) Mastodon app.

The project was created as a means to learn Rust and scratch a personal itch See the awesome python based toot, for something more complete.

Visit our website at toot.rs for more information and updates.

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Status

Experimental, work in progress.

Known issues

  • does not load second page of toots (yet)

Features

  • View multiple toots on the screen at once
  • Rust-based TUI for a fast and efficient user experience
  • Easy navigation and interaction with toots

Installation

To install Tooters, you need to have Rust and Cargo installed on your system. If you don't have them installed, follow the instructions on the official Rust website.

Once Rust and Cargo are installed, you can install Tooters by running the following command:

cargo install tooters --locked

Usage

To start using Tooters, simply run the following command in your terminal:

tooters

You will be prompted to enter your Mastodon instance URL and login credentials. Once logged in, you can navigate and interact with toots using the keyboard shortcuts provided.

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • j or : Move down
  • k or : Move up
  • h or : Move left (switch column)
  • l or : Move right (switch column)
  • n: Compose a new toot
  • r: Reply to the selected toot
  • b: Boost the selected toot
  • f: Favourite the selected toot
  • q: Quit

License

Copyright (c) 2023-2024 Josh McKinney

This project is licensed under either of:

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Dependencies

~28–45MB
~783K SLoC