I would like to announce a public server running #brutaldon: https://brutaldon.online/
Brutaldon is a brutalist, Web 1.0 web interface for Mastodon. You can use it as a client for any instance. Currently you do not need a separate brutaldon account. It is compatible with almost any web browser, including text-mode browsers like lynx, w3m, or eww.
Screenshots, issues tracker, and source code are available at https://github.com/jfmcbrayer/brutaldon.
Have fun!
the bird guy
@gcupc Now I need to do something about the lynx colors. I can't read this prompt! 😆
@minego
You could always turn off colors!
@gcupc Good idea. That did the trick. Much more usable.
@gcupc
Seems nice!
@gcupc I CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO MY HOME COMPUTER SO I CAN SSH IN TO MY SERVER AND TOOT FROM LYNXS.
(But I'm moving this weekend, so it'll be monday or tuesday before I can try it.)
@gcupc This seems fun, but I'm getting a Server Error (500).
@ink_slinger Hmmm. On which page?
@gcupc After (attempting to?) authentication. It just shows brutaldon.online as the URL on the page.
@gcupc And, in fact, it's just right on the main page. I just tried going directly to brutaldon.online and it gives the 500 error.
@ink_slinger
Hmm. Did it send you to your instance's OAuth page?
@gcupc It did. And then it gave me the server error.
@ink_slinger
Do you have (1st party) cookies disabled?
@ink_slinger
That's it, then. Brutaldon uses an anonymous session cookie.
@gcupc Sorry. I misread your tweet. I have them enabled.
@ink_slinger
Hmm...I'll have to add more logging to get to the bottom of this.
@gcupc 500 error means your server is down, no?
Like, I can't even visit the page without getting the error now.
@ink_slinger It means the page you are visiting is crashing. But only for you, apparently.
@gcupc @ink_slinger I think it might be a login issue. I am getting a 500 when logging in via the "old login form" from lynx. Oauth seems to work.
@vsedach @ink_slinger I will investigate that route.
@gcupc Thank you SO MUCH for this, I really needed it.
@gcupc this is truly microblogging as tim berners-lee intended 
Can't wait to get home and play with this!
@gcupc @MightyPork speaking of the devil
@gcupc Oh shit yes, then I can toot from my home server, right next to my IRC client.
@gcupc I checked it out, it looks nice. But a bit too much whitespaces for my own taste :)
@polychrome @maloki
It does... and also on mobile 🤣
@sathariel
I am told by @lanodan that it does.
@gcupc And who says there are no more heroes.
Seriously, this is fucking fantastic.
@gcupc I... I love this. Full metal jacket sparkly love. 💖
Now to see if I have the geek skills (hah) to set brutaldon up.
Thank you for your service to the universe. 🙆🏽♀️
@gcupc outstanding! Very nice.
@gcupc I will try it out tonite because I really waited for something like this. My netbook is really slow so I try to do as much in the cli as possible.
@gcupc so far I have problems running it locally on OpenBSD (first I had to set wxallowed for /home, and now it can’t import Django even though I installed it).
I might try now to deploy it on a server with FreeBSD or Linux
@nielsk
It should be pretty generic in terms of portability. But there's no accounting for access control systems. I had to struggle with selinux to get the postgresql driver working in production.
@gcupc and @PinkCathodeCat VERY NICE! Me likey! Thank y'all for the effort.
This is interesting to me as a way to create outward facing components of a mastodon instance.
I'm still working on mixremix.cc, in my mind, while I put a knot in Collab.
@gcupc Wow, I kind of like this. Especially the "full brutal" mode.