I switched last year and haven’t looked back! For me at least, Mastodon has been a much better experience than Twitter ever was.
And yet you still can’t follow threads on their app, so on Tusky I’ll stay
Is this what everyone is using now? I was using Megalodon, Tusky, and the original app, but I’ve skipping a few updates of all of them.
I use fedilabs, don’t know if the other apps have caught up (hope they did) but the timeline function where you can add timelines from whatever instance you like and also have tags as timelines is so OP.
Since I spend most of my time browsing other instance timelines that feature is a must.
Just for me to understand this as I’m pretty new. Each instance has their own “timeline” aka homepage or feed with all content (people you follow, tags etc.), and you either have to access each instance separately or use something like the app you mentioned?
Each instance has a “local” feed of posts from that instance. Same as how local works on Lemmy.
You also have your “home” feed (like our Subscribed, it’s for posts from people you follow) and a “federated” feed (like our All, everything your instance knows about).
I mostly use Mastodon on desktop and I can pin columns with my fave hashtags in as their own separate feed, which is nice.
I’m mostly on Trunks… and I occasionally glance at Megalodon. Both have been light on updates lately (maybe I’m just spoiled by the crazy pace of development on Connect for Lemmy right now).
Based on their Mastodon posts, it looks like the Megalodon dev has been hard at work re-basing their app on the new official Mastodon app versim. Still no public release of that to use that I’m aware of.
I’ve reinstalled it to take a shniff and I’m impressed so far, very clean and functional.
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.
:android: On Android try Tusky, Fedilab, Megalodon, Tooot
:apple_inc: On iPhone/iPad, try Toot!, Ice Cubes, Ivory, Mona
As per Feditips: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110644814293019308
Ivory can do this via its Safari extension, and it does support Universal Links for select instances. It’s difficult to implement Universal Links for the fediverse because each instance would have to add an association file to their servers, and even if all instances add this, there’s a limit to how many domains you can support in an app
Ivory can do this via its Safari extension, and it does support Universal Links for select instances. It’s difficult to implement Universal Links for the fediverse because each instance would have to add an association file to their servers. Even if all instances add this file to their servers, there’s a limit to how many domains you can support in an app.
Is it possible to view Matsodon from Lemmy platforms?
In my cursory research, it seems to be possible to view mastodon through Kbin. And possible to view Lemmy through Mastodon.
Lemmy doesn’t have support for following user accounts, only communities.
All the platforms use the same backend. So there’s no reason full mastodon interoperability couldn’t be added to Lemmy in the future.
