Tutorial

Mastodon,
inside Telegram.

Connect The Feed Reader Bot to your Mastodon account to receive posts from your home timeline, lists and notifications directly in Telegram.

What is Mastodon?

Mastodon authentication

Subscribe to your home timeline

You can connect the bot to your Mastodon account. Once connected, you do not have to manually add each account you want to follow: the bot sends you the posts available on your home timeline.

01

Start the authentication

Send the /masto command to the bot with the domain name of your Mastodon server. For example, if your account is @jcmag@mastodon.social, your server is mastodon.social.

Premium/Elite users can use /masto_write instead to reply, boost and favourite posts directly from Telegram.

Mastodon authentication command in The Feed Reader Bot
02

Authorize the bot

Click the link provided by the bot, then authorize The Feed Reader Bot to access your Mastodon timeline.

Mastodon authorization screen
03

Paste the authorization code

Copy the code generated by Mastodon and paste it into the bot chat window.

Mastodon authorization code pasted in Telegram
04

Add your Mastodon timeline

Finally, send the /add_masto command to subscribe the bot to your Mastodon timeline.

Add Mastodon timeline command
Result

New Mastodon posts arrive in Telegram

When a new post is available on your timeline, the bot sends it to you automatically.

Mastodon post received in Telegram
Premium/Elite

Reply, boost and favourite from Telegram

If you connected the bot with /masto_write, you can enable Mastodon action buttons in your template.

Enable the buttons

Open the template page with the /template command, edit the Mastodon template and check Add Mastodon buttons.

Enable Mastodon buttons in the template

Use the buttons

Each Mastodon post will include buttons to reply, boost or favourite directly from Telegram.

Mastodon reply boost favourite buttons in Telegram
More Mastodon sources

Notifications and lists

01

Mastodon notifications

The bot can send your Mastodon notifications, including follows, mentions, boosts and favourites.

First connect the bot to your Mastodon account with /masto, then use /add_masto_notif to subscribe to your notifications.

02

Mastodon lists

The bot can send you all posts from a Mastodon list.

First connect the bot with /masto, then use /add_masto_list to subscribe to a list.

For example, to subscribe to https://mastodon.social/lists/59040, type /add_masto_list 59040.

Need help?

If you have any trouble connecting your Mastodon account, contact @jcmag on Telegram.

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