Web-based Desktop Client for Mastodon

Features:

• Small window on your menubar (or isolated window)
• Desktop notification
• Customizable shortcut keybinds
• Multi-account

Mastodon is an open source project. So if you want to make a new UI, you can just fork the project, implement your favorite UI and host it on your place. Then you can participate Mastodon networks from it.

However, Mastodon is a web application. So we can't go out from a browser. So this small tool provides a way to do it.

Installation

Via npm

$ npm install -g mstdn
$ open-mstdn-app

As an isolated app

Download a package archive from Release page (not yet), put unarchived app to proper place, and open it.

Usage

To be written.

Customization

Mstdn can be customized with JSON config file at {app dir}/config.json

The {app dir} is:

• ~/Library/Application\ Support/Mstdn for macOS
• ~/.config/Mstdn for Linux
• %APPDATA%\Mstdn for Windows.

Multi account