Mastodawn

FediTips has moved!Jul 2, 2023

You don't need to use the official Mastodon apps, they're not the best way to use Mastodon. The official apps only arrived last year, and they were intended as "Fisher Price My First Mastodon" things with a restricted set of features.

Third party apps have been around longer than official ones, and include way more features. You can sign in with the same account on all apps.

On Android try Tusky, Fedilab, Megalodon, Tooot

On iPhone/iPad, try Toot!, Ice Cubes, Ivory, Mona

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Shanti's Hellbound Heart Jul 2, 2023

@feditips I am using tusky at the moment - this might be really cheeky to ask, but are there pros and cons to each one? Not knowing entirely what is available from mastodon means that I'm not sure which of the apps is really delivering the best functionality or even if it's what I'm looking for. I just took the first recommendation I was given so I might be missing out on lots of stuff I didn't even know existed.

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El Gordo

@shanti @feditips Assuming you're on a Mastodon instance, any client with an elephant reference in its name is a pretty safe bet, because Mastodon compatability is most likely the target.

In my case, however, I'm running an Akkoma instance, which of course, is Mastodon compatible, so I'm typing this on my favourite Mastodon client (Tusky), but that means some of the features of my instance (Markdown for example) are not available to me here.