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Whalebird

Whalebird is a Fediverse client app for desktop.

Feature

An interface like slack
Notify to desktop
Streaming
Manage multiple accounts
Supporting
- Mastodon
- Pleroma
- Friendica
- Firefish
- Gotosocial

Install

Mac

Or you can download .dmg from release page.

So on, you can install from Homebrew:

$ brew update
$ brew install --cask whalebird

✨ Thanks to @singingwolfboy for adding it to homebrew-cask.

Linux

There are some packages in release page, for example .deb, .rpm and .AppImage. If you do not want to use the package manager, please download .tar.bz2 file and decompress it.

If you are using snap, please install from snapcraft.io.

$ sudo snap install whalebird

Or you can install from Arch User Repository.

$ yay -S whalebird

Windows

We prepared winget package and .exe files, but we don't recommend these ways. Because these binary is not code signed, so you will get warnings when you launch. Only Windows Store version is signed, so please use it.

$ winget show "Whalebird" --versions

Translation

If you can speak multiple languages, could you please help with translation in Crowdin?

Or if you want add new language, please create an issue. I will add it.

Development

We'd love you to contribute to Whalebird.

Minimum requirements for development

Node.js greater than or equal version 15.0.0 (18.x is recommended)
npm or yarn

Getting started

# clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-desktop.git
$ cd whalebird-desktop

# Install font config
$ sudo apt-get install libfontconfig-dev

# install dependencies
$ yarn install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:9080
$ yarn run dev

License

The software is available as open source under the terms of the GPL-3.0 License. However, icons do not comply with this license, © Miho Fukuda.

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