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Introducing @CrystalApp, a new Mastodon app for Apple TV.
Add your favorite hashtags to Crystal to play slideshows of photos and art from across the fediverse. It’s a little like having Mastodon feeds as your screensaver.
Available from the App Store on Apple TV https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crystal-for-mastodon/id6479724862
Really nice touch for alt text on Phanpy. As your mouse hovers over an image, the corresponding alt text is highlighted below.
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@GottaLaff Thanks to this post I’m now taking Mona Pro for a 2-week-free trial spin. Over the last2 years I’ve gone from MetaText to Ice Cubes. So far I’m liking this Mona format. #MastodonApps
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@Strypey Hubzilla does federate with Mastodon. In case you haven't noticed, but I'm writing to you from Hubzilla. It just requires ActivityPub to be activated both on a hub level (it is by default) and on a channel level (it is not by default). So what I meant was that Hubzilla does not have the Mastodon client API implemented, and so you can't use Hubzilla with a Mastodon phone app.
But seriously, for one, Hubzilla is structurally so far away from Mastodon that this couldn't work anyway, I guess. I don't think the Mastodon client API could be bent in such a way that it works with an architecture that has multiple channels, multiple identities on the same login, not to mention that the Mastodon client API probably couldn't handle nomadic identity with its side-effects. Even if the Mastodon client API could, Mastodon apps couldn't because almost all of them are geared towards Mastodon and only Mastodon.
Which leads me to the second point: Even if you could connect Hubzilla to a Mastodon phone app, you couldn't even use 5% of Hubzilla's features because almost all Mastodon phone apps only cover Mastodon's features, and I guess that some of those apps which already existed in 2022 still only cover Mastodon 3's features.
This is far from "better than nothing". Apart from people who have only just switched from Mastodon to Hubzilla still with Twitter on the brain, nobody on Hubzilla would refer to such massive limitations as "better than nothing". Besides, not being able to use an app is not "nothing". Hubzilla is one of the few Fediverse server applications that can be installed as a Progressive Web App. And if that doesn't work, you can use it in a browser. In other words, there's always the Web UI.
Just about all Hubzilla veterans would vastly prefer the Web UI over not being able to use text formatting (not possible on Mastodon), not being able to embed images in a post (not possible on Mastodon), not being able to add alt-text to images (works vastly different on Mastodon), not being able to add titles to posts (not possible on Mastodon) and not even being able to select a channel on their account that isn't the default (Mastodon doesn't have channels either). And that's only the tip of the iceberg.
One of the reasons why there isn't a Hubzilla phone app with a fully native mobile UI is because this UI would have to be absolutely massive. The app would end up more complex than FairEmail. A good app should offer all the same features as the Web UI. But Hubzilla itself is fully geared towards the desktop, feature-wise, handling-wise and in its philosophy. Don't forget that Hubzilla was not made as a Twitter replacement.
Lastly, neither @Mario Vavti nor @Harald Eilertsen is willing to add more proprietary, non-standard, Mastodon-exclusive technology to Hubzilla than absolutely necessary, if at all. And a client API that's made for something completely and utterly different from Hubzilla and that won't even work properly with Hubzilla is far from "absolutely necessary". Hubzilla rather indulges in independence from Mastodon.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #MastodonAPI #MastodonApps #Hubzilla
But seriously, for one, Hubzilla is structurally so far away from Mastodon that this couldn't work anyway, I guess. I don't think the Mastodon client API could be bent in such a way that it works with an architecture that has multiple channels, multiple identities on the same login, not to mention that the Mastodon client API probably couldn't handle nomadic identity with its side-effects. Even if the Mastodon client API could, Mastodon apps couldn't because almost all of them are geared towards Mastodon and only Mastodon.
Which leads me to the second point: Even if you could connect Hubzilla to a Mastodon phone app, you couldn't even use 5% of Hubzilla's features because almost all Mastodon phone apps only cover Mastodon's features, and I guess that some of those apps which already existed in 2022 still only cover Mastodon 3's features.
This is far from "better than nothing". Apart from people who have only just switched from Mastodon to Hubzilla still with Twitter on the brain, nobody on Hubzilla would refer to such massive limitations as "better than nothing". Besides, not being able to use an app is not "nothing". Hubzilla is one of the few Fediverse server applications that can be installed as a Progressive Web App. And if that doesn't work, you can use it in a browser. In other words, there's always the Web UI.
Just about all Hubzilla veterans would vastly prefer the Web UI over not being able to use text formatting (not possible on Mastodon), not being able to embed images in a post (not possible on Mastodon), not being able to add alt-text to images (works vastly different on Mastodon), not being able to add titles to posts (not possible on Mastodon) and not even being able to select a channel on their account that isn't the default (Mastodon doesn't have channels either). And that's only the tip of the iceberg.
One of the reasons why there isn't a Hubzilla phone app with a fully native mobile UI is because this UI would have to be absolutely massive. The app would end up more complex than FairEmail. A good app should offer all the same features as the Web UI. But Hubzilla itself is fully geared towards the desktop, feature-wise, handling-wise and in its philosophy. Don't forget that Hubzilla was not made as a Twitter replacement.
Lastly, neither @Mario Vavti nor @Harald Eilertsen is willing to add more proprietary, non-standard, Mastodon-exclusive technology to Hubzilla than absolutely necessary, if at all. And a client API that's made for something completely and utterly different from Hubzilla and that won't even work properly with Hubzilla is far from "absolutely necessary". Hubzilla rather indulges in independence from Mastodon.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #MastodonAPI #MastodonApps #Hubzilla
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Using an #iPhone and #iPhoneMirroring allows me to easily select text from the mirrored phone in #IceCubes and #Mona on the #Mac. Why cant this work on the iPhone and app itself without having to open “select text”. Can’t select the text in the Mac app itself either. #MastodonApps
I miss algorithmic sorting of my #timeline . Sometimes it's just too much #toots to sort through.
Recently I came across #foryoufeed (by @pkreissel I believe) and I really like it.
https://foryoufeed.vercel.app/
The algorithmic sorting seems intuitive, transparent, and you get to tweak the parameters. The interface is a bit clunky though on my phone.
Do any #mastodonapps incorporate these types of algorithms? (or alternatively will incorporate this? Maybe my current favourite @IceCubesApp )
PS I know about hashtags, lists and all that. It just doesn't work well for me.
foryoufeed.vercel.appForYouFeed for Mastodon
There is a big opportunity to make a better Mastodon iPhone app right now.
The one I’m using has a lot of bugs and weird decisions built into it. At the same time, I acknowledge it’s the best one I know of.
I wish the official app was better, but it isn’t.
Sabertooth is now in the app store! 
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sabertooth-for-mastodon/id6476817859
App StoreSabertooth for MastodonSabertooth puts the power of the fediverse social network in your hand. Access a universe of user-created content and join the decentralized conversation from anywhere.
Connect with friends near and far by following users across instance boundaries. Share your perspective through photos, videos, an…
One really cool thing about #Tusky: you get the option to open a post with your other account (s)! Very convenient thank you 
#DhaagaUpdates v0.7.0 is out
You can now see your notifications. They even update themselves every 10s and give you a unread badge count!
Also, check out this sleek "Profile Peek" feature and re-designed profile page.
Oh, yeah. I also fixed a lot of misskey compatibility bugs.
See you next release,
Deb 
For anyone new to #Mastodon or returning it's easier to find people to follow by following hashtags of interest first.
As for #MastodonApps or #MastodonClients I recommend @phanpy
A Mastodon app feature I’d love is a post frequency rate (i.e., “This user posts an average of 365 times per week”) on each profile page so I can quickly include that data in an informed decision about whether to follow them. (cc @ivory)
Curious to know, how many columns do you set up on apps/clients that allow multi-columns? (Mastodon advanced web interface, Ivory macOS, Mona macOS, @sengi_app , @statuzer , @mastodeck , #TheDesk , Phanpy )
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I use the @MonaApp the most and I decided today to redo my tabs customizations. Now the things care about most are right there, and I get a little notif symbol when new content is present. I have lists of old peeps from the bird site and Fiber Faves. I follow hashtags like #knitting and #FilmTournament. If you like customization, check out Mona. #Mastodon #MastodonApps
Seems like @MonaApp could be the 1st 3rd-party client to replace “Unlisted” with “Quiet Public”.
Now… how about the other clients… 
Okay, so my @ivory subscription just got a boost from iOS + iPad OS to include Mac OS too.
