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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The mastodon app on f-droid is marked as "promotes anti-features" with a description "This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service" and I wonder why that would be, since there's also Tusky, Fedilab, Husky, and some others, none of which have a warning like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Aaaah, that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is the version fdroid even updated??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

it's version 1.2.3

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 version. Still no public release of that to use that I'm aware of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I still use and love Tusky

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it possible to view Matsodon from Lemmy platforms?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I switched last year and haven't looked back! For me at least, Mastodon has been a much better experience than Twitter ever was.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I just deactivated both of my Twitter accounta. Done with the bs, I'll use mastadon for a while (and Lemmy).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet you still can't follow threads on their app, so on Tusky I'll stay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How they still don't have it I don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which Android client should I use for Mastodon ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I use Megalodon and I really like it. The base app is pretty decent though too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Mastodon is just so empty as a platform. I hope for its success but I am not seeing it at this point the way we are with Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is a strange take - Mastodon makes up ~80% of the Fediverse, whereas Lemmy makes up like 3% or something.

Mastodon is the entire reason the Fediverse as a whole ended up taking off - for most people, it is the only thing they are aware of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to fediverse observer Lemmy hit 2.2 million users to mastodons 8 million, so it's up to like 17% now!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not accurate unfortunately as the vast majority are bots. It's more along the lines of 300k to 500k currently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the evidence that these are bots?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You need to start following people and hashtags.There is no algorythm filling your timeline.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I Iiterally cannot keep up with my feed. You have to build a network there. It is not spoonfed to you.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you're looking for the exact same celebrities you followed on Twitter, you're going to be let down.

If you follow hashtags instead, there's a lot to like. In a sense, Mastodon almost seems more Reddit/Lemmy-like, in the fact that content is more discoverable by topic instead of person.

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