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ActorViewer

ActorViewer is a tool that allows one to explore their Fediverse data exports. It uses the Qt 5 library for its user interface, and builds fine with Qt 6. Currently, ActorViewer allows doing the following:

  • Open Mastodon data exports (make sure to have them decompressed and open the outbox.json file!)
  • Support for other Fediverse platforms will be added in the future, in addition to presenting a smarter UI for opening exports. Also, automatic decompression of downloaded exports would be handy.
  • Filter through types of posts: public, unlisted, private, boosts…
  • Search through your posts with a fun scroll bar to navigate through search results
  • View embedded media and polls in posts
  • View all information about the activities in the Mastodon outbox.json ActivityStream
  • Go to a random status!
  • Copy the status text

Furthermore, support for viewing replies to your posts will be added. I also want the app to have translation support (and be translated) before making a release.

Building

To build, have a C++17-compliant compiler, CMake 3.9 or later, and the Qt 5 or 6 library installed. This repo uses git submodules which can be fetched by recursively cloning (git clone --recurse-submodules) or initializing submodules afterwards (git submodule update --init).

That should get dependencies which currently are mastodonpp. Note that when asking CMake to generate the build files, you can disable mastodonpp support by passing -DMASTODONPP_BUILD=0.

Simply said, after installing CMake and Qt from your package manager, do the following to build the project:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://git.twilightsparkle.space/ActorViewer && cd ActorViewer

# Generate build files (initially and if CMakeLists.txt changes)
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

# Build!
cmake --build build -j$(nproc --all) --target all

I plan to make a Flatpak in the near future so that manually building will not be necessary.