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Universal Twitter alternatives: Mastodon & co apps
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He already mentioned a couple of days ago that he is working on it, so I don't want to bother him with that tbh.
IceCubesApp (@icecubesapp@mastodon.cloud)
Here is the list of the next few things that will get worked on / fixed. - Post getting cut when posting, I have a solution and it’ll get fixed soon. - Better theming support with text colors customizations and save & share your own themes. - Post languages support, set the language of your...
As much as I want to delete Twitter for good, there's just too many accounts on there I keep up to date with. I'll wait a little longer and see how many migrate to Mastodon. For now though, I'll just use lists on Twitter.
There are supposedly sites that let you follow Twitter accounts from Mastodon but I haven't had any luck with them. This is one: https://birdsite.lakedrops.com/
Me neither. I was able to follow a generated account but they never show up in my timeline.
Today he did announce a change is coming to how timeline refresh is handled.
IceCubesApp (@icecubesapp@mastodon.cloud)
Two announcemens: - The next beta will have a much, much better macOS / iPadOS experience. - I'll start to look at finally keeping your scroll position in the Timeline when loading new posts. For people who knows, this is fully in #SwiftUI, so I hope you can feel the pain from there.
After quite a hassle to get the app approved Ice Cubes app is now available in the App Store (free, with optional in-app to support developer). There is still a lot to be done (see also my earlier suggestions here and on GitHub) to make it perfect but for now it works great as my daily driver.
https://sportsbots.xyz has been adding a ton of mirrors to sports accounts to Mastodon. Tons of new ones today.
Having been on Mastodon for five years now (when it was still cool to be there), the influx of new apps is a good thing for me. However, with Metatext having been sent to the Unmaintained stack, there is none that makes me happy: Some are just ugly, most have the problem that I will miss many posts.
Like Tweetings, Metatext has a Fill Gaps feature: I could just leave my smartphone for two days, come back to it, open the app and I could continue where I stopped without starting on top of the timeline every time.
Ice Cubes does not do that (it says “x new posts” and jumps to the top when I press that), Woolly does not do that reliably either. Any ideas?
Like Tweetings, Metatext has a Fill Gaps feature: I could just leave my smartphone for two days, come back to it, open the app and I could continue where I stopped without starting on top of the timeline every time.
Ice Cubes does not do that (it says “x new posts” and jumps to the top when I press that), Woolly does not do that reliably either. Any ideas?
I love that people are mirroring!
Were you able to get into the Ivory beta?
It's really pretty and I don't feel like I'm missing posts when I bounce between it and the web version. But I'm pretty new to all this so take that with a grain of salt.
From my short experience, Ivory keeps its timeline position well and also timeline sync between iOS devices works really nice.
They even said "during this week" on Mastodon. The 1.0 version is ready.
They also gave a preview of what could be the pricing for the subscription: https://tapbots.social/@paul/109735431908155072
More pricey than Tweetbot, as excepted since the user base will be much smaller, at first at least.
They also gave a preview of what could be the pricing for the subscription: https://tapbots.social/@paul/109735431908155072
More pricey than Tweetbot, as excepted since the user base will be much smaller, at first at least.
It seems that Tusker has been officially released and Ivory might have been accepted by Apple and is waiting for Tapbots to flip the switch.
Yes indeed Tusker is in the App Store and Ivory is expected to become available later this week.
I'm also curious when Mona and Mammoth will become available.
I guess Woolly will take a bit longer since it's still quite limited in features.
I decided to go for the standard subscription for Ivory. The main reason for me is the user interface: the scrolling for example in Ivory is the smoothest of all the apps I tried (some apps are really jerky), and Ivory displays images sharp and uncropped.
As for functionality: for me Ivory has almost everything and I know they will add new things in the future.
YMMV.
As for functionality: for me Ivory has almost everything and I know they will add new things in the future.
YMMV.