Q: Are there any Mastodon apps or clients that show something other than the chronological timeline?
For example:
• hiding old posts you've already read
• sorting posts other than date-based
• surfacing posts by friends who post infrequently
• surfacing trending posts, and adding them to your main feed
Thanks for any suggestions! Please share for visibility.
I’m sorry but the interface for adding alt text (image descriptions, which all images should have) on mobile is terrible in most apps. Here is tumblr and the Mastodon app. 👎 #mastodonsupport#mastodonapp#alttext
(please do not reply telling me to use desktop, I do, it’s great, or with other work-around suggestions. I just posted the names of 30 insects using OCR and a host of other tools— I’m the queen of work-arounds! the point here is that “accessibility” shouldn’t be an afterthought!)
If you tried @mammoth previously, I'd recommend taking another look today as version 2.0 is released. It feels like it has been rebuilt from the ground up. There are some new interesting features, like the Smart Lists that are curated by people, not algorithms. Also - it's finally going open source tomorrow!
A new fediverse iOS app called fedicat @technicat (TestFlight) has a feature I’m calling “bloosts” which is a boost and a like in one button. I love it.
Now I want a “bloostmark” that boosts, likes and bookmaks a post at the same time. 😅
New app update: a few fixes and small improvements plus, finally, image descriptions, including text recognition!
I'll add automatic AI image captioning if this post gets enough traction.
(I'll probably add it anyways so don't feel obligated to boost 😆). #app#mastodonapp
@itsfoss Just gave a second chance to #Moshidon after having authentication hiccups in the first one (still had them while setting up accounts today, but I figured it out). It presents the best of #MastodonApp and #Tusky:
can download media
profile links always on top
functional drafts
very familiar interface par to official Mastodon app
This week we're testing a new tool called the Mastodon Scheduler to automate our posts. It's self-hosted, doesn't expose itself to the internet, and runs as a background service so you never have to worry about keeping an app open.
🎉 Celebrating one year since my first contribution to @moshidon! Over the past 12 months, I've added dozens of features and improvements, in 66 pull requests and 291 commits (porting some of them over to @megalodon in "only" 39 pull requests). In total, I added ~17k lines of code. Looking forward to another year.
New update: the notifications screen now has a condensed design! Instead of one notification item for each individual favourite, boost, and reply, now you can see all of them in a succinct UI. Try it with your next popular post! #mastodonapp#android#app
If you are connected to firewalled wifi and attempt to post in the Mastodon app you do not get an error. Your post is eaten. Deleted forever.
I wrote this amazing post and it’s gone. This has happened before. Other apps say “cannot post” when firewalled. Seems like bug.
(please don’t tell me to use a different app I have four apps each with their own issues- the purpose of this post is to check if it’s fair to call it a bug)
I've really enjoyed working on new features for @moshidon lately, so here's another one. Polls now animate to show their options when you click "Show Results".
Way too much time was spent just watching and enjoying the animation.
Continuing work on notifications in my Fediverse application #Pipilo. Added color highlighting and small animations that appear when there are unread notifications.
Also seen is a new layout for images that displays whole alt text under them.
Making it so it will be possible to quickly reply to mentions directly from notifications in #Pipilo. Do any other fediverse apps have a feature like this?