The shine is wearing off #phanpy. While it does a few nice things with summarizing threads, the UI is crowded and overwrought, at the expense of the operations users do most often, such as boosting. Three clicks to boost is a deal breaker by itself, but the thing that clinched it was the tiny controls causing me to hit the wrong setting when muting. After having such problems several times, I think I'm done.
Revisiting the mastodon web client #phanpy since I've never been that crazy about any client (currently use tusky and the web interface). Phanpy has come a ways and is fairly stylish, which I don't care much about. So far the #1 feature is that posts which appear on the timeline because of subscribed hashtags are conspicuously marked with the hashtag(s) above the post title. Going to take it around the block for a spin.
One of my currently biggest "issues" with Friendica is handling re-sharing posts right. Like: If I use just "native reshare" on the post, behaviour differs according to where a post comes from. Meaning: Resharing Pixelfed or Mastodon posts will only make them visible to the AP crowd. Resharing Diaspora* posts will only make them visible for Diaspora* folks. Same for Tumblr and cough Bluesky. So I usually do use quote-sharing for content that matters (to me), which however results in being unable to use random Mastodon API clients (like #phanpy , #rodent , #tusky) for that - as in there, I can only (by now) boost Mastodon posts as far as it seems and I am unable to at least easily do a quote-share of an existing boost. Unfortunately, even though I really do force myself to use Friendica web / Frio all the time, it still leaves some things to be desired especially on mobile devices.
So, wondering: How do you folks handle this? Just use Friendica web and go with its "issues"? Just use whatever "reshare"/"boost" does without not bothering too much about who's able to see the posts? Or not interacting with any people outside the ActivityPub universe at all....?
@z428 Mastodon bashing would fit here... Diaspora is an isolated island. Technically I cannot judge AP and Diaspora protocol but I prefer AP for the greater community and the greater access to news sources. I hope development of AP goes on and the bad influence Mastodon will be minimized. Usual disclaimer: I do not blame the folks in my timeline for their network.
@vegos_f06 Oh well, I don't really like Mastodon bashing all too much, but asides the greater reach, I feel the more disappointed with ActivityPub the deeper I look into the specs and the things left open or unaddressed for reasons beyond my understanding. User consistency is definitely one of them.
Little question about #phanpy. It seems that I don't see the "reblogs" in my Pixelfed account with Phanpy (no boost carrousel). I can see them with the default Pixelfed web interface. Is there an option to activate ? @phanpy@cheeaun
@Phil_Traere you're right. I don't see them when I tested it out too in the beginning, thought maybe I didn't follow enough people 🫣. Will look into it, thanks! 🙇♂️
Last RP : je témoigne aussi => le client web #phanpy est un vrai bonheur à utiliser, la UI est vraiment très élégante, la mise en page est agréable avec le "boost carroussel" par ex, il y a beaucoup de features intéressantes comme catchup.
Hey @cheeaun, does @phanpy have any keyboard shortcuts to interact with media posts? Like play/pause for video/audio, and entering fullscreen mode for images? I like stepping through my timeline by pressing j/k, but frequently need to get back to using my mouse because I'm missing that. :( Also, I'd really love to get the currently selected post centered vertically on screen! 😅🙏
@cheeaun True, but I need to move my hands away from the home row for that. 😅 I don't have any issue with the arrow keys doing that, it's just that I'd appreciate a secondary binding on <H>/<L>, that's all. :)
@cheeaun is there a left handed version of #phanpy? Masto has given me tendinitis in the right thumb flexor so right now I'm using the left hand and all closing icons are too far...
@luca thanks. I'm not sure what this do, it's a notification about someone you follow has moved to another server? Is this an admin-level notification?
[1/7] Mit dem Standard-Web-UI von Mastodon hab ichs einfach nicht so, und nutze es üblicherweise über alternative Web-Clients. Auch den bekanntesten davon, #Elk, habe ich schon verwendet. Lange Zeit jedoch am ehesten den Web-Client von #Soapbox. Jetzt aber steige ich gerade auf #Phanpy um, das unter https://phanpy.social/ erreichbar ist.
Wie bei anderen alternativen Web-Clients für Mastodon muss man auch dort erst mal seine Heimatinstanz eingeben, also troet.cafe, social.tchncs.de oder wie eben heißt. Dann muss man noch die Erlaubnis erteilen, dass der Client die im Browser aktive Anmeldung bei der Heimatinstanz nutzen darf. Somit kann der Client die API der Heimatinstanz genauso nutzen wie der Web-Client der Heimatinstanz selber.
Obwohl sie auf die gleichen Daten via API zugreifen, können alternative Web-Clients diese Daten durchaus anders aufbereiten. Phanpy strengt sich dabei besonders an. Nachfolgend ein paar Beispiele:
[2/7] "Lost in Fediverse" meint oft: Man liest ein Posting und sieht erst auf den zweiten Blick, dass es eine Antwort auf ein anderes ist. #Phanpy stellt optisch geschickt den Bezug zum Posting dar, auf das geantwortet wird:
Das waren nur ein paar Beispiele, wie eine durchdachte alternative Web-Oberfläche für Mastodon das tägliche SocialMedia-Leben und -Erleben durchaus beeinflussen und verbessern kann. Hier noch ein paar Links zu alternativen Web-Clients für Mastodon, also Clients, die im Browser ohne Installation irgendwelcher Software direkt auf den hier verlinkten Adressen nutzbar sind:
Brutaldon ist 90er-Style, aber bewusst. Es gibt dort mehrere Themes, die im Einzelfall vielleicht für Menschen mit Sehschwäche von Vorteil sind: https://brutaldon.org
La bellezza del Fediverso non sta solo nella struttura dei server, ma dipende anche dalla varietà di client disponibili per accedere alla rete. Laddove Twitter è ora estremamente severo su quali app possono collegarsi alla rete, Fediverse dà il benvenuto a tutti gli utenti sulla piattaforma! E sebbene Mastodon sia sicuramente l'attore più grande, non è assolutamente l'unico elefante nella stanza.
Scegliere il giusto client per il Fediverso può migliorare significativamente la tua esperienza con la piattaforma. Che tu sia un utente occasionale alla ricerca di un'interfaccia semplice sul tuo smartphone o un utente esperto che ha bisogno di lavorare su più account o istanze, c'è un client là fuori per te.
Hai ragione, dimenticavo che tante piattaforme sono fork più o meno lontane da Mastodon quindi molte app funzionano per tante cose. Sì penso che gli autori Hackaday intendessero “i nostri client non ufficiali preferiti”…dopotutto si occupano più di hardware e di elettronica :)
@nemo sì, esatto. Ma ammetto che ho equivocato anch'io... se non fosse stato per te me ne sarei accorto solo dopo avere visto nel dettaglio le altre app
@thylacoleo hi, Phanpy dev here. If you've picked Spanish in your previous postings, it should be remembered and sorted to the top the next time.
Alternatively, you can pick the language in "Hide Translate button" section in Settings. It's a setting to hide the 'Translate' button for languages you already know, but it's also used to sort them up in the languages list while composing.