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Someone reminded me today 9 years ago I submitted my first post on Mastodon—using curl on the command line, since there was no interface at the time. That's how the journey began! 9 years is a long time to be doing something. Those early years are still fresh in my mind though.

@Gargron it would be nice to know how to post using curl on the command line. Is it still possible and documented?

Eugen Rochko

@dimpase Yeah, it's actually exactly the same now as it was then, the API never had to change! You need to get an API key and POST to /api/v1/statuses with the right params. There's documentation.

@Gargron @dimpase I do it (with curl and from Java) to provide the public service that I used to on Twitter, in the before times! Thank you for keeping an open simple interface for posting.