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FriendSh3ep, a Mastodon / Fediverse client for Amiga OS 3.2
Finally also for OS3.9.
Mastodon is a free, open, decentralised alternative to the
usual walled-garden social networks:
no ads, no biased algorithm, no single company owning your
data, moderation decided per server.
FriendSh3ep is a native Amiga client for it,
with full Unicode/emoji rendering and real image/audio previews.
Needed to work:
- AmigaOS 3.9 or 3.2, a 68030 50Mhz should be OK,
a 68060 or better is, well, better.
Relies on picture.datatype a lot.
- A fast Internet stack (Miami, AmiTCP, RoadShow...).
- AmiSSL v5 (the more recent, the better) it's on Aminet.
- EmojiGear v5.2, for modern fonts, emoji rendering
and text editor.
Optional but used if present:
- AHI + mpega.library, for mp3 audio playback (yes, you can share mp3s
on Mastodon).
- OpenURL and some browser , to open urls from links.
As with any third-party Mastodon client, you create your account on your
server's own web site; FriendSh3ep only ever gets a revocable token to it,
authorised in your browser in two steps. You can connect several accounts,
on several servers, and switch between them with one click -- or just
browse anonymously without any account at all.
And now for the glorious list of features FriendSh3ep brings:
- a list of mastodon servers allowing anonymous connection is preconfigured:
So you can watch Local/Deferated timeline out of the box with no account
after installation.
- Connect multiple accounts, and switch account and servers with one click.
- Home, Local, Federated, User, Search and Notifications timelines.
- Full modern toot rendering with attached images, audio and emoji.
- Click hashtags, links and mentions -- actually click anything.
- Favourite/unfavourite, reply, bookmark, modify and delete your own toots.
- Attach images or audio/video file to a toot (gif/jpg/png, mp3/ogg/mp4).
- Word and hashtag search; search, follow and unfollow accounts.
- "Autoscroll Play" mode: sit back and let the timeline scroll itself.
- Switchable UI themes (fonts, colours, button skins):
themes stands in the /themes directory and you can create one yourself !
watch HowToCreateATheme.gif and "style.txt" file in themes.
(since 1.0:)
- Polls: You can create polls with a special window, and vote for them,
see the result.
- BookMarks: you can now set and unset bookmarks on toots,
and view them in the new Bookmark page. Note If that page is viewed,
its fill a special cache under user dir, and
then you will be able to watch your bookmarked toots offline.
- News page ! The list of "Most shared news from news website, on the
last day, on the visible federation." Which is the best rational way
to hierarchise information I have ever seen.
- Translation engine: if a toot is written in another language than your
locale settings, and your server allow translation, you'll have a button
to translate it to your own language on the fly.
This is amazing and works even with japanese messages.
- When writting a toot, you can specify the language in which you write,
it will allow translation for other users.
- You can block/ Unblock users and servers, and see the list of blocked ones.
- You can see the list of who faved or boosted your toot.
- Search page allow to get informations about a given mastodon server,
their limits, their rules, and if they allow translation.
About corrections:
- If you have EmojiGear5.1 you should upgrade to 5.2 or you will have
glitches in the poll window setup.
- for those who tested the 0.8 versions from github, many corrections
has been done for this releases.
License is LGPLv2, sources and project page:
https://github.com/krabobmkd/FriendSh3ep
Releases pages:
https://github.com/krabobmkd/FriendSh3ep/releases
Bug reports and features requests:
https://github.com/krabobmkd/FriendSh3ep/issues
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