fedibroquel

small tool to suspend instances on Mastodon from the command line

this tool leverages the Mastodon API and the masto.js library

Requirements

• Node JS and NPM
• Git
• Mastodon instance with privileges to suspend other fediverse instances

Setup

• Go to your Mastodon account with admin privileges and create a new application. Make sure it can do domain blocks.
• Install Node JS and NPM
• Clone this git repository
• Change directory to the repository
• Run npm install
• Copy .env.example into .env file
• Fill out the values on .env file.
• • ACCESSTOKEN: provided by Mastodon once you create application.
• • TIMEOUT: timeout in milliseconds. Default value 60000.
• • APIURL: URL of the Mastodon instance you moderate. Example: https://mastodon.social

Usage

node index.js --domain [domain] --private-reason [private reason] --public-reason [public reason] --obfuscate [true/false]

• --domain parameter is required. string value, no spaces
• --private-reason is required. string value, no spaces (for now)
• --public-reason is optional. default value is the same private reason, no spaces (for now)
• --obfuscate is optional. default value is true.

Notes

• You can also use launcher fedibroquel.sh and add it as a symlink to your /usr/local/bin/ folder if you are on Linux sudo ln -s $(pwd)/fedibroquel.sh /usr/local/bin/fedibroquel sudo ln -s $(pwd)/fedibroquel.sh /usr/bin/fedibroquel