Text2toot

About

text2toot is a connector which allows posting to Mastodon via texting from your phone. It was written by ash on 2019-01-25 and the source code is available on GitHub. It requires Twilio, or some other similar phone system back-end, to send and receive the texts.

In theory, it can be used with any instance. We had it enabled on toot.cat for a few months, but there was very little interest and it became a technical liability.

Syntax

• (no command, media attached)

  uploads media to instance for inclusion in next toot

• clear_media

  clears currently pending attachments

• post.visibility[[content warning]] post content

  sends toot, additionally including any pending media

  • visibility is optional; defaults to global
  • content warning is optional; defaults to none
• register [instance] [token]

  sets current login

• notify subscribe

  subscribes to mention notifications

• notify unsubscribe

  unsubscribes from mention notifications