Package Request
| R4306 tootle | |||
| D3047 | R4306:f81e58658e16 Create working build of tootle | ||
Apologies, but what is Mastodon? It looks like Tumblr. Is it just a self-hosted/open-sourced version of Tumblr?
Basically, yeah. People seem to compare it more to twitter, though.
In addition to being self-hosted, all of the nodes can interact with each other. So there is a single "network" with many instances.
I've been running my own instance for about a year, now
How does this compare to the functionality provided by Whalebird (T6303), ignoring the fact that Tootle is a Granite-based client whereas Whalebird is Electron / nodejs.
I actually have not used whalebird so I can't say. I can try that tomorrow evening, though, and get back to you.
After having used whalebird, I have to say I really like the whalebird client's method of interaction. As far as feature support, they're pretty close. Whalebird supports mastodon 'lists' and tootle doesn't, but that seems to be the only real feature distinction.
That said, I do really appreciate that tootle is a native client, and that tootle is small and can get out of the way easily. Whalebird is great if mastodon is all you want to do, but if you want something to put on screen next to something else, tootle seems like a better option.
Another thing to note: they use the same form of authentication. Both of these clients attempt to open a web browser so you can authorize them with your mastodon account. This only works if your default browser is set properly.
I guess my second point is more concise as:
Neither is very good at the other's role
@asonix I appreciate you taking the time to review both. I'm going to go ahead and mark this as accepted for inclusion.
feel free take inspiration here https://gitlab.com/devil505/solus-3rd-party-repo/tree/master/tootle for your patch :)
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