@jame a very easy way to detect that it's fake: I've used WP8 since 2014 (W10M since 2016) and until 2023 as my daily driver / only phone; I've used mastodon since 2018; and there were never any working clients in that time period, so I had to use stock mastodon frontend (later, when it started to require features only present in newer browsers, Pinafore; later, when that broke too, Sengi, up until 2023)