This a small python script you can use to post from the command line.

Go to Preferences>Development and create a new application. Then grab the access token and put it in the script along with your instance name.

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import requests as r
import sys
h="https://YOURINSTANCE"
t="YOURTOKEN"
a=sys.stdin.buffer.read().decode("utf-8")
d={"status":f"{a}"}
u=f"{h}/api/v1/statuses"
p=r.post(u,data=d,headers={'Authorization':f'Bearer {t}'})

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Then just printf or echo your post and pipe into it

I keep seeing people say Mastodon is nothing like Twitter. And they’re right.

Mastodon is an echo of the old internet, it’s decentralised, chaotic. What you get depends on your sysadmin. You can’t search, everything has to be shared to you by a human. Networks split apart and rejoin. What you see is your unique connection to it.

Is this good? Maybe. But for me that’s the internet I grew up with. No algorithms, no targeted adverts, just human interaction, and it was glorious.

twitodon.com/
Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon!

Pour l'instant c'est surtout s'assurer d'être facilement trouvable grâce à cet outil, car peu de monde (en tout cas dans la twittosphère fr) y à déjà associé ses deux comptes. Mais plus l'usage se répand dans nos communautés, plus ça sera utile :).