This is alpha quality software, many things are broken, some feature are missing some works with unintended/unexpected side effects; this software is for testing only and remember that there is NO WARRANTY.

Tinmop is an opinionated client for

• gemini;
• gopher;
• kami

and

• Mastodon or Pleroma.

It offer a distraction free terminal interface and a GUI for accessing the geminispace.

The name is a recursive acronym: "Tinmop Is Not Mutt or Pine". The older of us can remember that, in turn, Pine is sometimes considered an acronym as well: "Pine Is Not Elm" and, finally, Elm means (according to Wikipedia): "Electronic Mail".

The source is kindly hosted on Codeberg.

• fediverse
  • tree structure of messages;
  • subscriptions of hashtag;
  • encrypted direct message (but see FAQ);
  • extensible and programmable;
  • no mentions notification, no knowledge of when or who favourited your status;
  • No blocking or muting, the client can be configured to ignore a list of accounts.
• gemini
  • both TUI and GUI available;
  • tour mode (collect link in queue and visit them later)

The package comes with a manpage, inline help and the default configuration files are extensively commented.

Any help is appreciated. If you intend to contribute please point your browser to the issue tracker or file a pull request.

But, please take a minute to read the file CONTRIBUTING.org

For helping in translating the program's strings please see this page.

• Is tinmop compatible with mastodon servers?

  Yes, in fact I am using tinmop with a Mastodon instance on a daily basis.

• I just tried to start the program for the first time but it give me a weird error, what's wrong?

  Did you wrote a configuration file before starting?

  Tinmop expects a configuration file in your config directory (usually $HOME/.config/tinmop/). This file must contains at least the username and the name of the instance you want to connect. If this file does not exists or is invalid tinmop will refuse to start.

  Please check the man page (tinmop(1)) for more information.

• OK the program is running but how can i use it?

  Press the key ? to get a list of the available keys available.

  Also check the manpage

• Tinmop crashed! Where can i report that?

  The issue tracker is here:

  https://codeberg.org/cage/tinmop/issues/

  Please also, if possible, send the backtrace of the process. To print a backtrace just write backtrace when the debugger has been invoked.

  Important note

  The backtrace can contains sensitive and personal information, please always carefully checks the backtrace contents before making this information public!

• Are the encrypted messages secure?

  No. First only a symmetric encryption scheme is implemented (so there is a problem of secure key exchanging). Moreover i am not a crypto expert and probably i made something wrong. Note that i am not claiming that the algorithm (AES256) or the implementation of such encrypting algorithm is flawed but that, likely, is flawed the code i wrote to use the crypto library in this software.

  So, please do not consider the encrypted message secure at all.

The author of this software collects no user data information with this software.

But this software is a client to connect and interact to one or more remote computer. So potentially it could share a lot of information with other actors but just after the user allowed it to do so.

It is the user responsibility to checks the privacy conditions of the instance this software connect to.

Moreover launching quick_quicklisp.sh will contact https://www.quicklisp.org/, check the quicklisp sources for details.

tinmop: a multiprotocol client

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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.

If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.