Advice for newcomers: don’t bother with the official Mastodon apps. Try these instead!
Web: https://elk.zone
iOS/macOS: https://tapbots.com/ivory/
Android: https://tusky.app (haven’t used this one myself, but people seem to mention it a lot)
(See replies for more options)
Interestingly, some of the replies I originally got for this post are now gone. Not visible in my replies or even notifications anymore. Stuff like this makes me a bit nervous trusting Mastodon to keep anything for longer than a week. (Not that Twitter was much better at it.)
Anyway… a bunch of the replies also recommended https://phanpy.social (web).
Joni Korpi
The Seven Voyages Of Steve