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This toot thing is pretty cool. I installed it with
```sh
pip3 install toot
```
It doesn't seem to handle Markdown formatting well, it takes 3-7 seconds for `toot timeline` or `toot notifications`, and it inserts newlines into media URLs when it displays them (but it does display them).
And although it is *mostly* CLI-controlled, it does occasionally have uncontrollable fits of interactivity, like in `toot timeline`:
```
Continue? [Y/n]
```
So it isn't the instantaneous responsivity you might hope for from a CLI app. But it does work and you can presumably run it easily from an arbitrary cloud VM over ssh.
@radehi Oh, I didn't write it! I just 'apt install toot' 'd it. There's also tut, which is a TUI based client. https://github.com/ihabunek/toot ...
`toot tui` is a bit snappier. I think maybe they forgot the command to scroll down in a toot when it doesn't fit on the screen, as well as a command to get a pastable link to media attachments. (There's a help screen listing the key commands on "h".)
Freezes when you type "t" to look at the thread of a toot until it's loaded the statuses (several more seconds).
Seems like a promising prototype! Maybe I'll try it again in six months.