Joni KorpiJul 3, 2023

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)

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Elk

A nimble Mastodon web client

Elk
Show threadTopaz, fluffy yip 

@jonikorpi The built-in web UI is actually pretty nice (check out multicolumn mode if that interests you!); it's just the supposedly ""official"" iOS/Android apps that suck!

We use Tusky for its multiaccount features, it works decent. On desktop we have cookie containers so we don't need a special client for that.

Jul 24, 2023 at 11:08amWeb
Show thread🚲Jul 24, 2023
@topaz @jonikorpi it sucks more and more on every new release since 4.0 releases though, IMO (edit is the only good new feature)
Show threadTopaz, fluffy yip Jul 24, 2023

@xarvos @jonikorpi ...yeppp.

We're sticking on 3. Someone should really fork 3. The edit UI is the only thing that needs to be backported – you can actually edit with other clients, even.

Show threadJoni KorpiJul 24, 2023
@topaz I used the official web UI for a while, but honestly it just isn’t up to the standards people coming from modern zillion dollar social media platforms are used to. It’s trying to do too much with too few resources.