Adding Mastodon to the social networks

[Bandie]

With this you can add a Mastodon username+instance to your config which will show it nicely like all the other social services.

[parkr]

What does this look like when the options are specified? What if a user is on multiple instances?

[Bandie]

It looks like this:

You don't see the instance name intentionally because

1. it would break the design
2. Mastodon does it the same for known users within a conversation

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I assumed that someone would add just one instance.
If you request it to have more than one we'd have to change it.
We could do something like

mastodon_username1: foo1
mastodon_instance1: bar1
mastodon_username2: foo2
...

…if you don't have a better idea.

[parkr]

@Bandie Thanks for the screenshot! Hard to test when I'm on mobile ☎️ . 😄

As for multiple instances, I see lots of folks using multiple instances so if we're going to support this, I'd love to support multiple instances right off the bat. What do you think about this in the _config.yml file?

mastadon:
- username: parkr
  instance: foo.bar.com

Then in the Liquid, you'd check for site.mastadon in your if, and then for loop over site.mastadon.

[Bandie]

Thanks @parkr, now I know that the html stuff is called Liquid. :D
Here you are~

[pathawks]

How about using example.com here?

[Bandie]

Agreed™

[parkr]

@jekyllbot: merge +minor