After spending some time with the GTS flavored masto-frontend, I think I'm going to make the switch to it full time. It was nice using elk, but ultimately, I really love the ability to have multiple feeds on the same screen, or I feel like I miss important updates. Since I primarily use this account for FOSS stuff and work stuff, I have a list called "FOSS updates" and being able to see both of the feeds at once is useful. Then I have notifications on the far right, and it just feels... useful. It's also better at updating real time.

Here's the source if anyone is interested:
https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/masto-fe-standalone

#gotosocial #fediverse #mastodonFrontend #fedifrontend #glitchsoc

we are looking for an ios mastadon frontend that:

• doesnt auto expand content warnings when i have it set not to
• bigger emoji
• doesnt give double notifications for everything no matter how much i press the magic “stop duplicate notifs” button
• does not have ai slop integration lmao

EDIT:
also:

• stops us before boosting something without alt text

#DuckDuckFedi #mastodonfrontend

A quick blog post as this was getting too long for a Mastodon post.

For most people social media comes as a dedicated app these days. However, all of the services can be accessed via a web browser too and usually this gives access to a more feature rich experience. I’m the web browser kind of person, trying to find out everything you can do with a specific social media service and to bend them to my needs wherever possible – but I have also used apps, when they were well done, like Tweetbot.

I’m not sure about the terminology as I’m not a programmer but I’ve come across the term “frontend” recently and from what I understand, this means the interface that is used to access the main service. So an app would be a typical frontend that people are familiar with, presenting a service in its own unique way. There are also “web clients”, they do the same but within a web browser. Some of them are made by the same people who own the service, some aren’t. They all have in common that you need to enter your service credentials and trust the interface owners not to abuse them.

With everything that happened to Twitter/X a lot of people were looking for a replacement that offered a similar experience. A number of apps and web clients for Mastodon were developed to provide that to a degree but because Twitter/X and Mastodon are not the same this did not always work out. See a list of web clients here, some popular apps are Ivory, IceCubes, etc.

Some of the frontends to services kind of warp the original service experience quite a bit. It should not really have surprised me that much as I had come across web clients for Mastodon already that tried to do that too but there is one called Newsmast that does it even more so than others. Newsmast is a Mastodon project centred around “communities”. It gathers posts from across the Fediverse (e.g. from Pixelfed) and presents them as feeds/streams/channels (not sure what to call them) that people can subscribe too. This helps quite a lot when you are new to the Fediverse and struggle with finding content for your home feed that suits you. I can see this feature being appealing to newcomers.

The one thing I really don’t like about Newsmast is its preselection of social links users can enter. There is everything I want to stay away from and Twitter does not even exist under that name anymore. Even though Newsmast is part of the Fediverse and actively pulls in posts from all kinds of Fediverse services into its “communities” feeds, there are no other Fediverse services listed in the “Socials” and the only field that allows you to enter a “free” link is the Website one. I just tried entering my Pixelfed account under Instagram and it was reformatted into an Instagram address. It’s like Newsmast is living in the past, sorry.

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The best place to comment or ask questions about this post is my Mastodon – Testing account: Sylkeweb on Mastodon

https://sylkeweb.com/2023/11/17/mastodon-frontends-newsmast/

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #HowToFediverse #Mastodon #MastodonFrontEnd #MastodonWebClient #Newsmast #Pixelfed #SylkewebBlog #TestingTheFediverse

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Halcyon

Halcyon ist eine Webanwendung für Mastodon and Pleroma dessen Ziel es ist, die einfache und schöne Oberfläche von Twitter nachzubauen, während es all die Vorteile dezentraler Netzwerke im Blick behält.

#mastodon-front-end #pleroma-front-end

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