Streaming is theoretically implemented. My server does not support it, and most servers do not, but if any do it should work. Of course with no way to test, I'm just not sure.

ttyverse.pl

@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ EOF
 		$directurl = "${apibase}/conversations";
 		$listurl = "${apibase}/lists/%I/accounts";
 		$murl = "${apibase}/timelines/home";
-		$streamurl = "${oauthbase}/api/v1/streaming/user";
+		$streamurl = "${oauthbase}/api/v1/streaming";
 		$publicurl = "${apibase}/timelines/public";
 		$searchurl = "${oauthbase}/api/v2/search";
 		$trendsurl = "${apibase}/trends";
@@ -5920,7 +5920,45 @@ sub start_streaming {
 			# restart nurse process if it/curl died
 			goto HELLOAGAINNURSE if(!$streampid);
 
-			# read a line of text (hopefully numbers)
+			if ($authtype eq 'oauth2') {
+				# Handle Mastodon Server-Sent Events format
+				my $event_type = '';
+				my $event_data = '';
+				
+				# Read lines until we get a complete event
+				while(defined($buf = <NURSE>)) {
+					chomp($buf);
+					
+					# Empty line marks end of event
+					if ($buf eq '') {
+						if ($event_data) {
+							# Package the event data for processing
+							$duf = "{ \"packet\" : \"data\", \"pid\" : \"$streampid\", \"curlpid\" : \"$curlpid\", \"payload\" : $event_data }";
+							printf STDOUT ("%08x%s", length($duf), $duf);
+							$packets_read++;
+						}
+						$event_type = '';
+						$event_data = '';
+						next HELLONURSE;
+					}
+					
+					# Parse SSE fields
+					if ($buf =~ /^event:\s*(.*)$/) {
+						$event_type = $1;
+					} elsif ($buf =~ /^data:\s*(.*)$/) {
+						$event_data .= $1;
+					}
+					# Ignore other SSE fields like 'id:', 'retry:', etc.
+				}
+				
+				# If we reach here, the stream ended - reconnect
+				close(NURSE);
+				kill 9, $streampid if ($streampid);
+				kill 9, $curlpid if ($curlpid);
+				goto HELLOAGAINNURSE;
+				
+			} else {
+				# Handle legacy Twitter-style length-prefixed format
 				chomp($buf = <NURSE>);
 				# should be nothing but digits and whitespace.
 				# if anything else, we're getting garbage, and we
@@ -5944,6 +5982,7 @@ sub start_streaming {
 				printf STDOUT ("%08x%s", length($duf), $duf);
 				$packets_read++;
 			}
+		}
 	} else {
 		# within the nurse process
 		$0 = "TTYverse (waiting $wait_time sec to connect to stream)";
@@ -5963,7 +6002,7 @@ sub start_streaming {
 		my $stream_endpoint;
 		if ($authtype eq 'oauth2') {
 			# Mastodon streaming - use Server-Sent Events
-			$stream_endpoint = "$streamurl?stream=user";
+			$stream_endpoint = "$streamurl/user";
 		} else {
 			# fediverse legacy streaming
 			$stream_endpoint = "$streamurl?delimited=length${replarg}";