Mastodon

Service Description:

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

User Guide

Activation of the service

From the page http://127.0.0.1:8000/th/service/

Services

from the “Services available” part of the page, select Mastodon then fill all the fields with the information you can have from mastodon:

  • in Nickname ; put your mastodon nickname
  • in Password ; put your mastodon password
  • in Client ID ; put the “Client key”
  • in Client Secret ; put the “Client Secret”
  • in the Host ; put the host of the mastodon instance

Then press “Activate it”

Defining a trigger

with Mastodon as provider, when another service is used as a consumer

mastodon step 1 mastodon step 2

with Mastodon as consumer, when another service is used as a provider

mastodon step 3 mastodon step 4

if you tick the “fav” checkbox, this will allow you to “save” the toot to another service, for example to Wallabag, to be read later.

Installation Guide

Requesting a key

  1. on the “new” page (https://<your mastodon instance>/settings/applications/new), fill application name, application url, redirect uri

the redirect uri is

https://<your trigger happy instance>/th/callbackmastodon
  1. once the page is validated, we can get the client_key and client_secret by editing the application we created at step 1. Those two data will be needed in the form of the activation of the mastodon service
  2. activation of the mastodon service
  • username is the email you used when you registered to your mastodon instance
  • password is your mastodon password
  • client_ key is the key you own from the step2
  • client_ secret is the key you own from the step2
  • host is the host of the mastodon instance

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