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[–] MiscreantMouse@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

I switched last year and haven't looked back! For me at least, Mastodon has been a much better experience than Twitter ever was.

[–] idusces@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet you still can't follow threads on their app, so on Tusky I'll stay

[–] reclipse@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How they still don't have it I don't understand.

[–] seacocker@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this what everyone is using now? I was using Megalodon, Tusky, and the original app, but I've skipping a few updates of all of them.

[–] Elkaki123@vlemmy.net 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I use fedilabs, don't know if the other apps have caught up (hope they did) but the timeline function where you can add timelines from whatever instance you like and also have tags as timelines is so OP.

Since I spend most of my time browsing other instance timelines that feature is a must.

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[–] sverit@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I still use and love Tusky

[–] RxBrad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm mostly on Trunks.. and I occasionally glance at Megalodon. Both have been light on updates lately (maybe I'm just spoiled by the crazy pace of development on Connect for Lemmy right now).

Based on their Mastodon posts, it looks like the Megalodon dev has been hard at work re-basing their app on the new official Mastodon app version. Still no public release of that to use that I'm aware of.

[–] Beardedsausag3@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've reinstalled it to take a shniff and I'm impressed so far, very clean and functional.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You don't need to use the official Mastodon apps, they're not the best way to use Mastodon. The official apps only arrived last year, and they were intended as "Fisher Price My First Mastodon" things with a restricted set of features.

Third party apps have been around longer than official ones, and include way more features. You can sign in with the same account on all apps.

:android: On Android try Tusky, Fedilab, Megalodon, Tooot

:apple_inc: On iPhone/iPad, try Toot!, Ice Cubes, Ivory, Mona

As per Feditips: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110644814293019308

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

You can also use kbin to read, comment and boost mastodon 'toots'. That's what I do anyway.

[–] wutBEE@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any way to get the iOS apps to open Mastodon links by default?

[–] jkelol111@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ivory can do this via its Safari extension, and it does support Universal Links for select instances. It’s difficult to implement Universal Links for the fediverse because each instance would have to add an association file to their servers, and even if all instances add this, there’s a limit to how many domains you can support in an app

[–] jkelol111@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ivory can do this via its Safari extension, and it does support Universal Links for select instances. It’s difficult to implement Universal Links for the fediverse because each instance would have to add an association file to their servers. Even if all instances add this file to their servers, there’s a limit to how many domains you can support in an app.

[–] sneezy@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The mastodon app on f-droid is marked as "promotes anti-features" with a description "This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service" and I wonder why that would be, since there's also Tusky, Fedilab, Husky, and some others, none of which have a warning like that.

[–] BrikoX@vlemmy.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] skymtf@pricefield.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is the version fdroid even updated??

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[–] freemachine@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it possible to view Matsodon from Lemmy platforms?

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

In my cursory research, it seems to be possible to view mastodon through Kbin. And possible to view Lemmy through Mastodon.

Lemmy doesn't have support for following user accounts, only communities.

All the platforms use the same backend. So there's no reason full mastodon interoperability couldn't be added to Lemmy in the future.

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[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Aside from Mastodon.Social are there any other decent instances? I'm considering joining one; I liked Twitter before Elon bought it and miss it.

Of course Im staying on Lemmy as well. :)

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a ton of established instances that have been around for awhile

See: https://joinmastodon.org/

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I ended up joining Fosstodon 😘

[–] cianmor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

mastodon.world is also maintained by Ruud, same Admin as lemmy.world

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[–] scorpiosrevenge@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I just deactivated both of my Twitter accounta. Done with the bs, I'll use mastadon for a while (and Lemmy).

[–] Hurican9ja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which Android client should I use for Mastodon ?

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[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might have to give it a go, see how well they integrated the updated material design. So many apps still don't support adaptive icons and proper colors.

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