A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance

Despite Facebook's well documented censorship of anti-Zionists, people use Instagram and similar sites because the most people are there. This is very understandable, but if we don't see people's posts because they are banned or shadowbanned, the number of people there hardly matters.

Mastodon is an ActivityPub-based Twitter-like federated social network node. It has an API that allows you to interact with its every aspect. This is a simple Python wrapper for that API, provided as a single Python module.

Mastodon.py aims to implement the complete public Mastodon API. As of this time, it is feature complete for Mastodon version 3.5.5. The Mastodon compatible API layers of various other pieces of software as well as forks, while not an official target, should also be basically compatible, and Mastodon.py does make some allowances for behaviour that isn’t strictly like that of Mastodon, and attempts to support extensions to the API.

Insight into why some people stop using mastodon. Sample from Bluesky so highly biased towards people who received invites from the new startup.

• got yelled at, felt bad
• couldn’t find people or interests, people didn’t stay
• too confusing, too much work, too intimidating
• too serious, too boring, anti-fun
• complicated high-stakes decisions

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POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.

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