Amiga OS3 Mastodon Client
------------------------- Version 0.8
First public beta of FriendSh3ep, a Mastodon/Fediverse client for AmigaOS3.
Mastodon is a free, open, decentralised alternative to the usual walled-garden social networks: no ads, no biased algorithm, no single company owning your data, moderation decided per server. FriendSh3ep is a native Amiga client for it, with full Unicode/emoji rendering and real image/audio previews.
Needed to work:
- AmigaOS 3.2, a 68030 should be OK, a 68060 or better is, well, better. (OS3.9/Coffin/AmiKit users: just upgrade to OS3.2.)
- An Internet stack (Miami, AmiTCP, RoadShow...).
- AmiSSL v5 (the more recent, the better) -- it's on Aminet.
- EmojiGear v5.1, for modern font and emoji rendering.
Optional:
- AHI + mpega.library, for mp3 audio playback (yes, you can share mp3s on Mastodon).
As with any third-party Mastodon client, you create your account on your server's own web site; FriendSh3ep only ever gets a revocable token to it, authorised in your browser in two steps. You can connect several accounts, on several servers, and switch between them with one click -- or just browse anonymously without any account at all.
What this beta can do:
- Connect multiple accounts, or browse anonymously.
- Home, Local, Federated, User, Search and Notifications timelines.
- Full toot rendering with attached images, audio and emoji.
- Click hashtags, links and mentions -- actually click anything.
- Favourite/unfavourite, reply, modify and delete your own toots.
- Attach an image or audio/video file to a toot (gif/jpg/png, mp3/ogg/mp4).
- Word and hashtag search; search, follow and unfollow accounts.
- "Autoscroll Play" mode: sit back and let the timeline scroll itself.
- Switchable UI themes (fonts, colours, button skins).
Not yet there, but coming:
- Block/unblock accounts and whole servers.
- Bookmarks and a "News" (most-shared) timeline.
- Attaching more than one file per toot.
- Polls.
Not planned at all (but who knows):
- Playing attached videos in place (you get a thumbnail for them).
- WebP images, until a webp picture.datatype shows up somewhere.
FriendSh3ep is a Mastodon/Fediverse client for AmigaOS 3.2.x (68k), built on the same UTF-8/emoji rendering stack as EmojiGear (utf8rastport.library, unitexteditor.gadget, unibutton.gadget).
License is GPL.
SOURCE CODE AND BUG REPORTS
Source code: https://github.com/krabobmkd/FriendSh3ep
Bug reports and feature requests: https://github.com/krabobmkd/FriendSh3ep/issues