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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️I love that I have half a dozen #Mastodon client apps installed on my phone, they're all under active development, and they all have as many (or more) features as the official app. It feels like the early days of Twitter apps, but without even the possibility of the rug getting pulled out from under it.
Lots of people in the replies to this asking what I think are the best #Mastodon clients right now. My phone’s a Pixel, so among the Android apps, I like @Tusky and @megalodon. (With Tusky, I’m using the nightly build, which is in the Play Store.) On the Mac, I’m very much looking forward to @ivory, but at the moment, the only fully Mac-like app (instead of being a phone app running on the Mac) is @MonaApp, and it’s terrific.
Alan MThanks for the tip about Tusky Nightly. Now using that one.
I've tried Elk on my pixel too, but I don't have great eyes and need to zoom in to read text in screenshots and see details in photos posted but Elk can't seem to zoom in.
Alan Martello@arossp For anyone interested in iOS, been using Ice Cubes (from Apples App Store) for a few days now - it’s wonderful! I can nit-pick about a few things, but they are pretty minor. Has everything I need, including following (and deleting follows) of hashtags.
I only wish my Mac experience was as good as my iPad experience. Lately I’ve been sticking to the iPad only with a Bluetooth keyboard just so I can use Ice Cubes.
Bud Gibson
Derek 🌈@arossp It is a great time to be alive!
bob 
@arossp I am LOVING Ice Cubes - so clean and so thoughtful. And I agree: openness is beautiful to see.
aardvark@arossp I guess I’d better look into why there’s even an official app. What does that mean in the fediverse?
Gabriele Pollara
David Chartier@arossp @vmstan One of the big things that clicked with me about this place, and the #fediverse in general.
It sounds cheesy, but: it’s built by the people, for the people (not shareholders, ads, or eNgAgEmeNt). Feels… refreshingly unprecedented that it’s taking off as well as it is so far.
Omar Hawwash 
Bianca@arossp I do too. Ivory is my favorite so far. 😍
PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼@GoldenRuleLover @arossp Do you know when Ivory will be rolled out?
@PaulNickson I purchased it yesterday.
@GoldenRuleLover From the Apple App Store? I can’t find it.
@PaulNickson When I logged into my beta version it updated and invited me to purchase the current version.
Paul Haddad (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image I think we're going with this. Enough people said they wanted to pay more that I'm sure as hell not going to stop them. Not going to feature gate anything, but I could see a couple fun perks for the higher level in the future.
@GoldenRuleLover That means the public rollout is imminent?
Federico Viticci (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Ivory by Tapbots is launching today. This app marks the beginning of a new era for Mastodon clients on Apple platforms. It raises the bar in this category, but there’s still work to be done. I reviewed Tweetbot 1.0 on MacStories in 2011; 12 years later, here is my review of Ivory 1.0: Ivory for Mastodon Review: Tapbots Reborn https://www.macstories.net/reviews/ivory-for-mastodon-review-tapbots-reborn/
@GoldenRuleLover I’m running it now. Beautiful. How Mastodon should look & feel.
Steve Williams@GoldenRuleLover @PaulNickson I’ve been skipping between iOS apps too. Just subscribed to Ivory. Best fit and finish. Gambling on the edit feature rolling out very soon!
@GoldenRuleLover @PaulNickson lots of attention to detail. I like how they focus on one aspect and get it right, rather than dumping it out there in a mess. One concern is that the filtering is done in app, so won’t propagate to the web Ui (which I have to use till the make a mac version ).
Robin@arossp HARD SAME a recent excellent surprise for me is the @icecubesapp
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@arossp Well, if someone started doing something nasty, presumably any instance could block a client app (provided it could be identified, but signature analysis has been around for a long time now).
notthatkaren@arossp I love when you go to download many of these mastodon clients seeing the “Data Not Collected- The developer does not collect data from this app”. It’s so refreshing!
Roman Zakharov@arossp on top of that it feels like begging of something massive. and actually i feel freedom of speech, freedom to be me. i didn’t wrote in twitter for like 3 years, only reading it, here, i wanna write everyone anything good and positive in reply 😊
Jim Morrison@arossp do you love the mass of notifications when you get @mentioned? I guess, if you’ve reduced them to just one app … that tells you all you need to know? 🧊
@jimbomorrison I don't have notifications on for any of them.
@arossp clever!
Jonathan Rollans 
@arossp it’s amazing! I forgot how much I loved the early days of Twitter clients.
Nick Stevens Graphics
Mads Vium Asbjørn@arossp Which client do you recommend?
toxtethogrady@arossp I like that this platform can now take posts up 1000 characters in length. That's helpful...
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Dean Amiridis
Christopher 
OneWheelGeek@arossp 100% agree. I love all these different apps, the new ideas, and the fun of trying out each one. Just discovered Ice Cubes.
Tom Resing@arossp it does feel like the early days of twitter clients, but these new ones all start at a higher quality base, from my perspective
@resing Yes. A lot of that is because the early days of Twitter apps were also the early days of mobile app development. So there was a lot of learning going on, whereas Mastodon apps are being built on everything learned.
@arossp true. they were also the early days of massive online realtime short posting networks like this! :)
kazys
GregJustin@arossp that's true but I assure you have its back
CaptainFluoro@arossp
#apps
I'm probably non-neurotypical, but for me, my phone is to contact people (and have maps, searches, etc), not for socialmedia.
Socialmedia is just for home - on a PC, where I won't get eyestrain from it.
If I took pics when out, then home is the time to put them on SM, not when I'm actually socialising.
All I want from SM is a good browser based PC UX.
The kids now, will finally 'get it', when they start having to put on reading glasses to read a phone.
HenkPoley@arossp Sadly the developer of MetaText no longer has time for development. I hope others pick it up.