As with most of my posts in this realm, I will continue adding new #MastodonApps and #BlueskyApps as I stumble across them. So, make sure to revisit the post every now and then.
#mastodonapps
New software review on my website!
Phanpy (Mastodon App)
★★★★★
An app for Mastodon (and other Fediverse sites) that cuts through the clutter. Runs anywhere in a web browser, or can be installed to your device's home page as a portable web app.
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/phanpy/
#fediverse #minimalism #phanpy #mastodonapps
A collection of silly Mastodon apps (the best kind). It includes a Fax-To-Mastodon app. :omgdotlol:
Nice touch to hashtags in the upcoming @trunksapp release.
Introducing @CrystalApp, a new Mastodon app for Apple TV.
Add your favorite hashtags to Crystal to play slideshows of photos and art from across the fediverse. It’s a little like having Mastodon feeds as your screensaver.
Available from the App Store on Apple TV https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crystal-for-mastodon/id6479724862
@The Gym Nerd There is no Mastodon that covers Friendica's entire functionality, yes. That's because Mastodon apps generally only cover Mastodon's functionality. Only Fedilab goes further, but even FediLab isn't a full-blown Friendica app.
Dedicated Friendica apps like RaccoonForFriendica, Friendiqa, DiCa and Relatica should cover a great deal more of Friendica's functionality. I'm not quite sure if either of them cover everything, e.g. if you can use them to manage the files in the file storage or integrate a Tumblr account.
I don't think there's a single mobile app that uses the ActivityPub C2S API. All Mastodon apps are built against the Mastodon C2S API, and the Mastodon C2S API doesn't cover anything that Mastodon can't do either.
Friendica has its own client API which dedicated Friendica apps make use of.
A hypothetical universal Fediverse app that covers everything of everything would also have to use all Fediverse client APIs out there.
CC: @KnittingMittens (She/Her) @Ghurir @S 🌱 L V I Λ
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Facebook #FacebookReplacement #FacebookGroups #Friendica #MastodonApps #RaccoonForFriendica #Friendiqa #DiCa #Relatica #FediLab
Dedicated Friendica apps like RaccoonForFriendica, Friendiqa, DiCa and Relatica should cover a great deal more of Friendica's functionality. I'm not quite sure if either of them cover everything, e.g. if you can use them to manage the files in the file storage or integrate a Tumblr account.
ActivityPup doesn't automatically mean everyone can do all the stuff the same way as a completely unrelated other platform does.
I don't think there's a single mobile app that uses the ActivityPub C2S API. All Mastodon apps are built against the Mastodon C2S API, and the Mastodon C2S API doesn't cover anything that Mastodon can't do either.
Friendica has its own client API which dedicated Friendica apps make use of.
A hypothetical universal Fediverse app that covers everything of everything would also have to use all Fediverse client APIs out there.
CC: @KnittingMittens (She/Her) @Ghurir @S 🌱 L V I Λ
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Facebook #FacebookReplacement #FacebookGroups #Friendica #MastodonApps #RaccoonForFriendica #Friendiqa #DiCa #Relatica #FediLab
My Ivory subscription is up for renewal in a couple weeks so decided to give the official Mastodon client (iOS) a test for a few days to see if it works well enough to switch back over.
I could get on with it if I had to, but I’m definitely sticking with Ivory. My main issue is the way the official app doesn’t seem to remember your location in the feed and when it loads new posts, skips way ahead making you scroll back down.
@ste I'm just trying it too! I love the squeaky notification noise! It also seems more reactive than Tusky and has a few other cool features. Why haven't I seen this before??
#MastodonApps #RodentApp
#Phanpy vite fait.
Lien : https://phanpy.social/
Really nice touch for alt text on Phanpy. As your mouse hovers over an image, the corresponding alt text is highlighted below.
Somebody <strong>please</strong> make a #Mastodon app that makes it so when you post the app name is "Twitter for iPhone/Android", that would be so funny!! #MastodonApps #idea
@GottaLaff Thanks to this post I’m now taking Mona Pro for a 2-week-free trial spin. Over the last2 years I’ve gone from MetaText to Ice Cubes. So far I’m liking this Mona format. #MastodonApps
Tusky has been fine as a Mastodon client for a while, but I'm getting the bug where if you start entering a post and switch away to check a fact or spelling (something I do a lot), your post vanishes. Super annoying. So I'm giving Pachli a try here, and we'll see how I like it.
@Strypey Hubzilla does federate with Mastodon. In case you haven't noticed, but I'm writing to you from Hubzilla. It just requires ActivityPub to be activated both on a hub level (it is by default) and on a channel level (it is not by default). So what I meant was that Hubzilla does not have the Mastodon client API implemented, and so you can't use Hubzilla with a Mastodon phone app.
But seriously, for one, Hubzilla is structurally so far away from Mastodon that this couldn't work anyway, I guess. I don't think the Mastodon client API could be bent in such a way that it works with an architecture that has multiple channels, multiple identities on the same login, not to mention that the Mastodon client API probably couldn't handle nomadic identity with its side-effects. Even if the Mastodon client API could, Mastodon apps couldn't because almost all of them are geared towards Mastodon and only Mastodon.
Which leads me to the second point: Even if you could connect Hubzilla to a Mastodon phone app, you couldn't even use 5% of Hubzilla's features because almost all Mastodon phone apps only cover Mastodon's features, and I guess that some of those apps which already existed in 2022 still only cover Mastodon 3's features.
This is far from "better than nothing". Apart from people who have only just switched from Mastodon to Hubzilla still with Twitter on the brain, nobody on Hubzilla would refer to such massive limitations as "better than nothing". Besides, not being able to use an app is not "nothing". Hubzilla is one of the few Fediverse server applications that can be installed as a Progressive Web App. And if that doesn't work, you can use it in a browser. In other words, there's always the Web UI.
Just about all Hubzilla veterans would vastly prefer the Web UI over not being able to use text formatting (not possible on Mastodon), not being able to embed images in a post (not possible on Mastodon), not being able to add alt-text to images (works vastly different on Mastodon), not being able to add titles to posts (not possible on Mastodon) and not even being able to select a channel on their account that isn't the default (Mastodon doesn't have channels either). And that's only the tip of the iceberg.
One of the reasons why there isn't a Hubzilla phone app with a fully native mobile UI is because this UI would have to be absolutely massive. The app would end up more complex than FairEmail. A good app should offer all the same features as the Web UI. But Hubzilla itself is fully geared towards the desktop, feature-wise, handling-wise and in its philosophy. Don't forget that Hubzilla was not made as a Twitter replacement.
Lastly, neither @Mario Vavti nor @Harald Eilertsen is willing to add more proprietary, non-standard, Mastodon-exclusive technology to Hubzilla than absolutely necessary, if at all. And a client API that's made for something completely and utterly different from Hubzilla and that won't even work properly with Hubzilla is far from "absolutely necessary". Hubzilla rather indulges in independence from Mastodon.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #MastodonAPI #MastodonApps #Hubzilla
But seriously, for one, Hubzilla is structurally so far away from Mastodon that this couldn't work anyway, I guess. I don't think the Mastodon client API could be bent in such a way that it works with an architecture that has multiple channels, multiple identities on the same login, not to mention that the Mastodon client API probably couldn't handle nomadic identity with its side-effects. Even if the Mastodon client API could, Mastodon apps couldn't because almost all of them are geared towards Mastodon and only Mastodon.
Which leads me to the second point: Even if you could connect Hubzilla to a Mastodon phone app, you couldn't even use 5% of Hubzilla's features because almost all Mastodon phone apps only cover Mastodon's features, and I guess that some of those apps which already existed in 2022 still only cover Mastodon 3's features.
This is far from "better than nothing". Apart from people who have only just switched from Mastodon to Hubzilla still with Twitter on the brain, nobody on Hubzilla would refer to such massive limitations as "better than nothing". Besides, not being able to use an app is not "nothing". Hubzilla is one of the few Fediverse server applications that can be installed as a Progressive Web App. And if that doesn't work, you can use it in a browser. In other words, there's always the Web UI.
Just about all Hubzilla veterans would vastly prefer the Web UI over not being able to use text formatting (not possible on Mastodon), not being able to embed images in a post (not possible on Mastodon), not being able to add alt-text to images (works vastly different on Mastodon), not being able to add titles to posts (not possible on Mastodon) and not even being able to select a channel on their account that isn't the default (Mastodon doesn't have channels either). And that's only the tip of the iceberg.
One of the reasons why there isn't a Hubzilla phone app with a fully native mobile UI is because this UI would have to be absolutely massive. The app would end up more complex than FairEmail. A good app should offer all the same features as the Web UI. But Hubzilla itself is fully geared towards the desktop, feature-wise, handling-wise and in its philosophy. Don't forget that Hubzilla was not made as a Twitter replacement.
Lastly, neither @Mario Vavti nor @Harald Eilertsen is willing to add more proprietary, non-standard, Mastodon-exclusive technology to Hubzilla than absolutely necessary, if at all. And a client API that's made for something completely and utterly different from Hubzilla and that won't even work properly with Hubzilla is far from "absolutely necessary". Hubzilla rather indulges in independence from Mastodon.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #MastodonAPI #MastodonApps #Hubzilla
Using an #iPhone and #iPhoneMirroring allows me to easily select text from the mirrored phone in #IceCubes and #Mona on the #Mac. Why cant this work on the iPhone and app itself without having to open “select text”. Can’t select the text in the Mac app itself either. #MastodonApps
@Tealk
Weil man ohne die Mastodon-API überhaupt keine Smartphone-Apps hätte. Weil erfahrungsgemäß keine Sau irgendwelche Apps entwickelt für etwas, das nicht Mastodon ist.
Bevor man also darauf wartet, daß sich jemand erbarmt und eine App entwickelt, macht man die eigene Serveranwendung "kompatibel" zu den existierenden Apps und den Apps, die in Massen entwickelt werden.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #MastodonAPI #FediverseApps #MastodonApps
Da stellt sich mir doch schon die Frage warum? Man weiß doch das Mastodon wenig kann, warum wird dann nicht eine eigene API angeboten?
Weil man ohne die Mastodon-API überhaupt keine Smartphone-Apps hätte. Weil erfahrungsgemäß keine Sau irgendwelche Apps entwickelt für etwas, das nicht Mastodon ist.
Bevor man also darauf wartet, daß sich jemand erbarmt und eine App entwickelt, macht man die eigene Serveranwendung "kompatibel" zu den existierenden Apps und den Apps, die in Massen entwickelt werden.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #MastodonAPI #FediverseApps #MastodonApps
A new version is out!
Thanks for using Sabertooth!
In this release we:
- Updated HTML renderer.
- Fixed the length of messages in direct messages.
- Updated user's featured tags.
- Updated preview cards.
- Fixed the bug with post interactions.
- Added the ability to show hashtags of the posts at the bottom of the post.
- Added the add button next to profile of unfollowed users.
- Updated home screen on larger devices.
Any new mastodon apps out there ?
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst