Steve Troughton-SmithYou probably haven’t thought about it, but virtually all the half-decent Mastodon apps you can run on macOS are iPhone apps — they’re not available to the remaining Intel users at all. Really underscores why the ability to run iOS apps is important to the Mac going forward, even if the results are less than stellar
Jesse@stroughtonsmith I agree with the conclusion more than the premise. I think Mastonaut is the app I gravitate to, which is fully native. Then Elk (web app as SSB), then Ice Cubes as a clear third. What other apps are you thinking of?
Brian Hough@stroughtonsmith Yup, totally agree. I ran Intel Macs exclusively until I got my M2 Pro MacBook this week, and I was missing out on all of the even halfway decent Mastodon apps. Ice Cubes, Mammoth, the “official” app - all iPhone apps running on macOS that weren’t available to me.
I was running Mastodon.social on a PWA app I created with Fluid. These iPhone apps aren’t great, but they are *lightyears* better than that.
Richard Earney@brianhough @stroughtonsmith would quite like Ivory switched on until the Mac app is released too
marsfromlarsAgree.
As for mac apps. The browser based clients are really not that bad:
- the standard mastodon website in advanced mode with multiple columns
- elk.zone for a beautiful single column view
Shihab Mehboob@stroughtonsmith A dedicated Mammoth macOS app is in the works and releasing soon!
@JPEGuin if you edit in a screenshot, I can boost you 🙃
@stroughtonsmith Done! Thank you 😅
Matthias Hühne@stroughtonsmith @JPEGuin I missed your boosts. Don't you even want to know what we've been working on while you've been away?
@stroughtonsmith @JPEGuin Great that you are back. I kept my GitHub sponsorship running all the time. Thanks for all your input.
@JPEGuin @stroughtonsmith Dang, thats looking nice! Can’t wait to give it a spin.
Marcos Huerta@JPEGuin does the dedicated Mac app have a TestFlight?
Ruben Dias ☕️@marcoshuerta asking for a friend 👀
Brian McMurray@JPEGuin @stroughtonsmith this looks great! Nice work!
Botolo@JPEGuin we need a way to sync timelines between apps.
Beto in Beta
Rob@stroughtonsmith I’m still using an Intel Mac. I run the “native” (@TauriApps) version of @elk and rather like it.
Wish it could sync the timeline with @ivory on mobile devices though…
Chris Adamson@stroughtonsmith @charliemchapman Emphasis on “iPhone”. Unfortunately, a lot of the Mastodon apps aren’t even great as widescreen iPad apps, which is a sign that they won’t offer much when resized as macOS windows.
Look at the waste of horizontal space in @[email protected], as just one example. I use Ice Cubes on my iPhone, but for iPad, I prefer @tootapp, which unfortunately appears to have disabled running on Apple Silicon Macs. So, for Mac, I still use the web version.
Slothdude@invalidname @stroughtonsmith @charliemchapman @icecubesapp @tootapp Hey, some of us LIKE that “wasted” space, for keeping the timeline at a readable width and giving it a very clean look. I can appreciate that some people prefer multiple columns, but those are not for me. ;)
@slothdude @stroughtonsmith @charliemchapman @[email protected] @tootapp It’s early days for Mastodon clients; I imagine we’re going to see lots of different approaches to satisfy different audiences.
@invalidname @stroughtonsmith @charliemchapman @icecubesapp @tootapp Definitely. I currently have six different apps on my iPad, and they all have their subtle differences already. None are quite perfect for my preferences yet, but this is the most exciting time I have had with software updates for years.
Jeff@stroughtonsmith Believe me, it’s been all the talk. Lots of cool iPhone & iPad apps, but the question everyone’s stumped on is what macOS app to use. Folks like IceCube but that’s not going to sync your feed across devices like the (hopefully coming soon) @ivory macOS app.