Gregory's Server
@nus It really should be easy, shouldn't it?
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As I recall, one of the qualities of Twitter in the early days was a very open and accessible API that allowed a wealth of third party apps. Many folks at the time, thought that this open API and the apps it allowed, was responsible for much of the early Twitter growth. Then over time, as I understand it, Twitter slowly limited access to the API and cut off the growth of third party apps and built much of the functionality into Twitter itself. @stpaultim @atomicpoet lots of sites had open APIs back in the day, they gave you free keys to do what you want. Of course, they still owned the doors, the locks, and the contents of everything inside... |
@atomicpoet I could write some code from an "F12" JavaScript console within a few minutes to post toots saying anything I wanted. It practically (somewhat literally) writes itself.
IMO the trickiest part that you saw there is actually the visual side, where they show you 5 instances and let you choose your own. The rest of it -- the authentication token, the API -- is really dead simple. Kudos to Mastodon for making it that way.