Fedi.TipsJun 18, 2025

If you're only using Mastodon through the official mobile apps, you're missing out on many of its features such as pinned posts, temporary mutes, scheduled posts, different poll types, account redirects and more.

If you want the complete Mastodon experience, you might want to try using your server's website, third party apps, web apps, desktop apps etc.

More info on all the different ways of accessing Mastodon in the guide here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use-should-i-use-the-official-app-or-a-third-party-app

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Show threadDaniel Pecos Martínez 🇪🇺 🐧

@FediTips I’m personally using the default web (which is a mobile web site, and can be “installed” on your phone like any other webapp). All the features right as they land, available, and really nice UX.

The only thing I’m missing are notifications 🤷‍♂️, which can be a good thing in order to avoid too many distractions.

Jun 19, 2025 at 9:00amWeb
Show threadGowtham SarathyJun 19, 2025
@dpecos @FediTips but u can turn on notifs in browser settings
Show threadFedi.TipsJun 19, 2025

@dpecos

If you install it as a web app it should provide notifications? Is this not working?

Show threadDaniel Pecos Martínez 🇪🇺 🐧Jun 19, 2025

@FediTips I’m using iOS, and apparently notifications are behind a feature flag I just enabled: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-enable-safari-notifications-iphone/

Let’s see if this works…

Show threadDaniel Pecos Martínez 🇪🇺 🐧Jun 20, 2025

@FediTips it didn’t work 😞 I was expecting to get a popup asking for permissions (similar to desktop experience) but didn’t get anything, nor notifications are appearing in my iPhone.

Nevertheless, I still prefer the webapp to use Mastodon!