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title: "Elk: A Nimble Client for Mastodon - FOSDEM 2025"
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image: elk-fosdem2025-sm
image-attrib: Jeremiah Lee
image-attrib-url: https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/113929298154246055
image-alt: Presenting Elk project in FOSDEM 2025
description: A presentation about Elk at FOSDEM 2025 Social Web
category: talks
---

On the 1st of February 2025, I presented a project at [FOSDEM 2025](https://fosdem.org/2025/) [Social Web track](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/social-web/). I am very glad I got to participate in this one, as I have been passionately involved in the [fediverse](https://ayo.ayco.io/now/and-then/posts/2023-01-19) since I have joined in 2022.

I talked about [Elk](https://github.com/elk-zone/elk), which is is a nimble [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) client with great attention to user experience, boasting features such as being a Progressive Web App (PWA), support for code blocks with syntax highlighting, chronological threading, and markdown formatting.

Started by core maintainers behind popular developer tooling in the Vue/Vite/Nuxt ecosystem in 2022, it attracted hundreds of contributors and resulted to the creation of new libraries now widely used in other projects.

In this talk, I gave a brief history of Elk development from the perspective of a contributor who has never written a Vue component (before Elk), some key features of the web application, and a look forward to the future of the project.

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### Links:

1. [Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oV00LWG4ahFGwDFeIUYvDKxLxJxzvTgU/view?usp=sharing)
2. [Video](https://youtu.be/LIiB8CmI14c?si=Pvbtt0-R8N3t15Xn)
