I switched last year and haven't looked back! For me at least, Mastodon has been a much better experience than Twitter ever was.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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And yet you still can't follow threads on their app, so on Tusky I'll stay
How they still don't have it I don't understand.
I've reinstalled it to take a shniff and I'm impressed so far, very clean and functional.
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
You can also use kbin to read, comment and boost mastodon 'toots'. That's what I do anyway.
Any way to get the iOS apps to open Mastodon links by default?
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
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.
Is it possible to view Matsodon from Lemmy platforms?
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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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.
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.
Just for me to understand this as I'm pretty new. Each instance has their own "timeline" aka homepage or feed with all content (people you follow, tags etc.), and you either have to access each instance separately or use something like the app you mentioned?
Each instance has a "local" feed of posts from that instance. Same as how local works on Lemmy.
You also have your "home" feed (like our Subscribed, it's for posts from people you follow) and a "federated" feed (like our All, everything your instance knows about).
I mostly use Mastodon on desktop and I can pin columns with my fave hashtags in as their own separate feed, which is nice.
Thanks, that helps!! The separate timeliness ads actuly pretty awesome. Basically a curated list of topics/people instead of everything being thrown at you like Twitter.
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I still use and love Tusky
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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. :)
There's a ton of established instances that have been around for awhile
Thank you, I ended up joining Fosstodon 😘
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I just deactivated both of my Twitter accounta. Done with the bs, I'll use mastadon for a while (and Lemmy).
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.
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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