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I wish I could see what people are tooting about without having to create an account.

• lettergram 9y ago
  That's actually one of the reasons (I think) Twitter became popular. It was easy to quote a tweet, and you didn't need an account.
  • jszymborski 9y ago
    you can view feeds[0] and quote toots[1] w/o an account, but yah no public federated timeline as far as I know. [0] https://mastodon.club/@jszym https://mastodon.club/@jszym [1] https://mastodon.club/@jszym/1784533 https://mastodon.club/@jszym/1784533
• badosu 9y ago
  The API for viewing an instance timeline is public, there are some timeline viewers in the wild [0][1]. To view the local timeline for mathstodon.xyz one can use this link [2], even though [1] looks better (but can't use a direct link). [0] - http://www.unmung.com/mastoview http://www.unmung.com/mastoview [1] - https://m6n-view.hnle.tk/ https://m6n-view.hnle.tk/ [2] - http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=mathstodon.xyz&view=local http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=mathstodon.xyz&view=loca...
• smacktoward 9y ago
  You can get an Atom feed of any Mastodon user's toots, if you know the right URL format to ask for or have a feed reader that can do autodiscovery. To demonstrate, here's mine: https://octodon.social/users/jalefkowit.atom https://octodon.social/users/jalefkowit.atom This means that you can drop a Mastodon user into your feed reader and follow them the way you would follow any feed-enabled web site. No Mastodon account required; in fact, once you know the schema for feed URLs, all you need is their username and you don't need to touch a Mastodon site even once.