I'm browsing Mastodon with #newsraft (https://codeberg.org/grisha/newsraft), a console-based #RSS reader. If I see a post that I want to reply to, hitting 'r' takes me to the canonical URI. where I, more often that not, don't have an account and I get the pictured hokey modal.

Copy the URI and /search/ for it on my node. Ugh. That's a janky workflow. Time for a programming!

To solve this, I've been building some utility functions using the Mastodon.py library to e.g. given a canonical URI, turn it into my reply-able home instance URI and launch it in a browser tab in Firefox on OSX. See second image below

I'm saving my work at:

https://github.com/sgharms/elephinn

I may scratch your itch and if you want to add a sub-command to share, you're welcome to contribute.

Optimal Mastodon Tools

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2023-01-02-optimal-mastodon-tools/

#blog #mastodon #rss #newsraft #apps #welcome #newtomastodon