Social Networking with the Mastodon API in R

I recently created a Fosstodon account to engage with the #rstats community there. So it seemed only natural to use rtoot (spiritual successor to rtweet) to publish my first “toot”:

# https://github.com/schochastics/rtoot
# devtools::install_github("schochastics/rtoot")
# rtoot::auth_setup()
rtoot::post_toot(status = "my first rtoot #rstats\n
                 (published with the rtoot package: https://github.com/schochastics/rtoot)",
                 media = "mastodon-logo.png", 
                 alt_text = "Mastodon logo")

It worked!

My first toot, published with the `rtoot` package.

A Mastodon thread could be published using Quarto and custom knitr hooks. Here is an example using rtweet – I will try to translate this to use rtoot instead.