#Mastodon is actually turning into quite the interesting phenomenon, almost like the social media version of Doom. It's fascinating to see how people are pushing the boundaries and making it work on all sorts of devices!
Just recently, there's been a Mastodon client developed specifically for Apple II, and surprisingly, it's quite impressive. Almost all the features you'd expect on Mastodon are there; from viewing timelines and receiving notifications to even creating content warnings. The only things missing at the moment are bookmarks and polls, but I have a feeling they'll be added in no time. It's genuinely an impressive endeavor!
Who knows what will come next? I'm personally excited to see if someone manages to make Mastodon work on a Texas Instruments Ti-99/4A Ti-84 calculator. Now that would be something truly remarkable! 😉
@atomicpoet@fediversenews It mirrors early Twitter and a little bit early Reddit where building tools that interact with the site were heavily encouraged.
I recall early days of twitter where libraries/programs to communicate with Twitter sprang up in every prog. language and devs in thousands of organizations built all sorts of programmatic communications through Twitter.
Sometimes words come along which are perfect. Schadenfreude is one, enshitification is another 🙂
@atomicpoet@fediversenews I’d actually like to see someone come out with an offline .QWK-style packet reader (or similar) so one could download a packet of messages, read and respond offline, and then upload replies once connectivity was restored like we used to do in the old #FidoNet BBS days. That way folks with limited connectivity/access to reliable power could also participate.
@atomicpoet@fediversenews@drewmcmanus to me it's very reminiscent of the early days of twitter, with the open, evolving API and encouragement to build whatever you wanted.
@marcel@atomicpoet@llamasoft_ox@fediversenews
additionally you can try some of the functionality in classic99 emulator..and full functionality in mame and js99er.net with either qemu pi emu or a real pi on the lan
@atomicpoet@fediversenews This is one of the reasons the Fediverse is amazing. There is a constant push by members of the community to change, improve, adapt, and not be satisfied with what is, but always moving toward what can be better for all and actually realizing it. Technically and socially no other platform comes close.
@atomicpoet Or Mastodon for the Braille Plus, or the newer notetakers, like the Braille Note Touch or Braille Sense Six. Or making Mastodon-mode for Emacs, work with Emacspeak. Of course, for the Android Notetakers, Tusky may work fine, but the notetaker screen readers didn't support accessibility actions, last I checked.
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