Gregory's Server
As promised, here's that boatload ⛵
Hmmm...
Well I "think" your asking about a method to have two accounts simultaneously available to you on your desktop. If that's the case, I could mention a few historic ones, but they were largely rather clunky and many even abandoned I think, but...
I know you like #Electron, so here's one - but note that I haven't vetted it properly do please don't consider this an actual recommendation just yet. I'll have to pour over all of these again actually, Electron desktop apps and browser based webapps, because it's been a while.
https://store.kde.org/p/1174659/
And there's a cute webapp that I noticed a month or two ago, yet still needs a few quirks worked out, like when you visit a profile.
I'll post the link to it below but first to an article describing it:
https://chromeunboxed.com/mastodon-google-plus-cuckoo-social/
Now, a problem you "might" have, at least on mobile, is your default browser setting, so, say you normally use straight chromium; you might want to manually launch a different browser like #Brave or #Vivaldi and then launch the browser webapp, or perhaps find that it reverts to whichever your current default browser has logged into already (I'm not certain of this, and once you login as that other user and save the webapp to your screen you should be good to go anyway for future sessions).
Saving the webapp to your screen on Android will connect that particular client (each instance of the saved webapp) to whichever server you connected it to and whichever underlying browser you did it with).
My only pet peeve with these is the loss of your address bar, so you can't just type in an address or copy the link from there directly:
https://chromeunboxed.com/mastodon-google-plus-cuckoo-social/
You actually can self-host Android apps on desktop a few different ways - none of them optimally, IMO; but here's one that I myself use to great utility for controlling an Android from my own desktops - YMMV, but something tells me you shouldn't have much of an issue using it 🙂
It's actually really kewl, and had much wider applications.
I'll rattle off a few others if the top of my head, but I have no idea what they're current status is, so thanks for prodding me too go and catch-up on these, dune if which i haven't looked at in about 4 years or so:
- #Sengi (webapp) https://nicolasconstant.github.io/sengi/
- Pinafore (webapp) https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore
- #Whalebird (Electron desktop) https://whalebird.social/en/desktop/contents
- Brutaldon (Webapp - kinda sucky IIRC) https://git.carcosa.net/jmcbray/brutaldon (but Jason does do some kewl minimalist #Gemini stuff and is one of us "original 10" Gemini server operators.
- toot (shell - not sure if it's ncurses based) https://github.com/ihabunek/toot
- naumanni (self-hosted web-based, multi-account) https://github.com/naumanni/naumanni
- Madonctl (CLI - Go) https://github.com/McKael/madonctl
- #Halcyon (webapp) https://notabug.org/halcyon-suite/halcyon
- tooty (self-hosted webapp) https://github.com/n1k0/tooty
NOTE: I went and looked them up in my notes after all lolz.
I think most of these should work with all of the #Pleroma forks too like #Soapbox and #Akkoma, since they incorporate the Mastodon API, but so does #Mitra and some things don't work with it (yet, like #Fedilab).
Some also worked with #Misskey too, so that will probably include #Calckey and #Foundkey.
I think I'll paste the link to this post in the #fediverse-city:matrix.org room too, since this may be if interest to many there as well.
In the meantime, I'll go and look around at dinner if those older webapps and see which ones are still extant.
I hope that helps!
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #scrcpy #cuckoo_social
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