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Mastodon is a free, open-source social network, written in Ruby. A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communication. Pick a server that you trust — whichever you choose, you can interact with everyone else. Anyone can run their own Mastodon instance and participate in the social network seamlessly.

## Server

### Installation

Install the mastodonAUR package. To use the git version, install mastodon-gitAUR.

To set up Mastodon, follow the instructions printed by the `post_install` script. You can also find a copy of this on the AUR web interface.

## Clients

A list of Mastodon clients is also available in the project's official website.

### Desktop

- Tokodon — Mastodon client for KDE.

  https://apps.kde.org/tokodon || tokodon, tokodon-gitAUR

- Whalebird — Whalebird is a Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey client with a Slack-like interface.

  https://whalebird.social/en/desktop/contents || whalebirdAUR, whalebird-binAUR

- TheDesk — Mastodon/Misskey Client for PC.

  https://thedesk.top/en || not packaged? search in AUR

- Tooth — A GTK Mastodon client forked from Tootle.

  https://github.com/GeopJr/Tooth || tooth-gitAUR

- Sengi — Multi-account Mastodon and Pleroma desktop client.

  https://nicolasconstant.github.io/sengi/ || sengi-appimageAUR

### Command line

- tut — TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys

  https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut || tutAUR, tut-binAUR

- toot — Mastodon CLI and TUI

  https://github.com/ihabunek/toot || tootAUR

## See also

- @archlinux@fosstodon.org, the official fediverse Arch Linux account

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