Naomi T.Nov 6, 2022

You find the switch to Mastodon quite hard / you don’t like the app / you find the app slow, counterintuitive, and unaesthetic?

LIFE CHANGER: You don’t have to use Mastodon on the Mastodon app! 🤯

I switched to Metatext (available for iPhone, not sure for Android) and this makes the whole experience *so* much more enjoyable 😍 It takes to 2 seconds to download and reconnect to your account via your instance/server!

Explanations here: https://mastodon.social/@ejpcollins/109296458385010644

Show threadamnesiacrobatNov 6, 2022
@BerLinguistin Metatext was my intro to 3rd party clients and now I have an addiction/problem with trying the ALL.
Show threadNaomi T.
@amnesiacrobat What do you mean by “trying the ALL”? #Newbie here 😊
Nov 6, 2022 at 9:00pmWeb
Show threadAndy McGuire 🐕Nov 6, 2022
@BerLinguistin @amnesiacrobat think it means trying *them* all 😉
Show threadNaomi T.Nov 6, 2022
@asjmcguire @amnesiacrobat Ooohhh yes, of course 😅 I thought the “all” was maybe a specific feature of the Fediverse 🙈
Show threadAndy McGuire 🐕Nov 6, 2022

@BerLinguistin @amnesiacrobat in a way it is. There is a community tab that only shows what people on the same server are talking about, and a fediverse (all servers) tab, which lets you see what everyone, everywhere (ish) is talking about....

So ALL is technically a fediverse thing 😋

Show threadamnesiacrobatNov 6, 2022
@BerLinguistin @asjmcguire yes it was a typo. Trying *them* all. My autocorrect gets overzealous the most with the/them and well/we’ll
Show threadAndy McGuire 🐕Nov 7, 2022

@amnesiacrobat @BerLinguistin not as bad as mine. People becomes prior and literally the only time I ever prior is when explaining to people that autocorrect does that.

About becomes s*it for some reason that I can't begin to understand, given that when you actually want to swear, autocorrect doesn't want you to (duck for example).

Show threadamnesiacrobatNov 7, 2022
@asjmcguire @BerLinguistin yes, I too have not given a duck many times and really the only time I use ducking intentionally, it corrects to the other one :/ but some of those others are definitely weird.
Show threadJSON 🐘Nov 7, 2022
@BerLinguistin @asjmcguire @amnesiacrobat tell me you use reddit without telling me you use reddit ... you must've been thinking of r/all huh? 😅
Show threadJeff PoveyNov 12, 2022

@BerLinguistin @amnesiacrobat I tried paid clients like "Mast" etc

Somewhat ironic that what I personally think is the best iOS client, the aforementioned #Metatext is free

I did fire up an old Android phone, and the #Tusky app is also very good

Show threadamnesiacrobatNov 14, 2022
@jeff_povey @BerLinguistin I was worried about Metatext since it had gone so long without an update, but it’s been updated in the last few days. I imagine all the press about Mastodon has gotten it some more attention from its dev, so that’s good. It’s the one I’m using the most.