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Tootdon App sends a copy of every post to a central corporate server
- TheChaplain 7y agoShame, it was one of the better apps. For alternatives I'd recommend Tusky. It's not perfect but does the job and the source is available.
- whalesalad 7y agotootdon and pleroma ... you can't make this stuff up.
- human20190310 7y agoSomeone needs to quantify what a barrier to success a bad name is so the people doing the naming understand that it's important.
- fenwick67 7y agoHalf of the most popular social networks have bad names - Twitter, Facebook, Snap... doesn't seem too critical to me. Hell, you could practically name your product "eunuchs" and it would be unlikely to affect your success.
- faissaloo 7y agoLain really doesn't care about mass appeal from what I can tell, Gargon seems to though
- riffic 7y agoGriping about names is about as bike shed as you can get.
- whalesalad 7y agoWhen you’re trying to replace twitter you can’t afford to make mistakes like this.
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- jonas21 7y agoThe point of bike shedding is that if you're building something complex like a nuclear reactor, the color of the bike shed doesn't matter. If you're building a social network, the name absolutely does matter -- it's probably one of the more important attributes.
- kungtotte 7y agoThe social network is called Mastodon, it's one client that's named Tootdon. There are several others to choose from if the name offends you. It's also important to realise that Twitter is a business and Mastodon is more of a communal property. It's not trying to compete with Twitter in the sense of grabbing all the users; it's offering an alternative for people who value other aspects of social media than those that Twitter wants to sell.
- swiley 7y agoWhy will apple not allow an fdroid on the iphone?
- dcbadacd 7y agoTo keep their walled garden, they say "for security" of course.
- kitotik 7y agoBummer. That that was the most usable iOS client I’ve found. Back to Amaroq I guess.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 7y agoI had downloaded this app a month or so ago in interest of checking out Mastodon since it was the best UX I could find. Glad I never got around to using it. Thanks for the alternative recommendation.
- wut42 7y agoRoma (free) or Toot!/Mast (paid) are great apps.
- vosper 7y agoTootdon is a client for Mastodon. Mastodon is a social network that's sort of like Twitter. In case (like me) you didn't know what this was about.
- kkarakk 7y agoa social network whose branding is broken isn't a very good social network. i think that everytime i rediscover mastodon and realize that it's still not being used by anyone i consider interesting
- djsumdog 7y agoMastodon isn't a social network. It's a client/web app to the Fediverse, distributed social network for which there are many different implementations (Pleroma, Misskey, Pixelfed, PeerTube, et. al.) which communicate via the ActivityPub protocol (over HTTP).
- ar0 7y agoJust note that this is nothing new and has been discussed extensively a year ago. They say it is to implement full-text search and toots will be removed after a month: https://mstdn.jp/@tootdon/99759644880024717 https://mstdn.jp/@tootdon/99759644880024717 If their statement is (still) true, it also means that the original post is at least imprecise insofar as they do not send every post to a central server but only public ones.
- cjslep 7y agoSome alternative clients: Fedilab, Mast, Tusky. I use Tusky myself.
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- StavrosK 7y agoI switched to Fedilab from Tusky, though both are excellent. Fedilab is a fantastic client, nowadays I use Fedilab with Mastodon and have the latter crosspost to Twitter, since Mastodon is more fun/communal than Twitter.
- cyphar 7y agoTwidere lets you use both Mastodon/ActivityPub and Twitter (so you can cross-post tweets/toots).
- wowaname 7y agoSadly it's unmaintained, but since I like it lots more than the alternatives, I'm hoping to fork it and pick up development in my free time.
- vokep 7y agoSo this is a Mastedon instance? huh....honestly seems comfy, and feels like how I wish twitter was. I might actually join this thing.
- detaro 7y agoIt's a pleroma instance (a different project using the same protocol as Mastodon, so compatible with it and a bunch of other projects)
- queerpride 7y agoIt's also developed by cishet Nazis who openly mock marginalized ppl. All anime avatar 4Chan dudebro instances use it too.
- teaneedz 7y agoAs a tootdon user, and somewhat privacy conscious, what are the details? Specifically, what is the tootdon parent doing wrong with posts? As a Mastodon client, the UX is one of the best for iOS that I've used. Search works as one would expect search to work. I'd like to know what the "evil corp" is doing to warrant the action described.
- MoronInAHurry 7y agoWhy is this a problem? Isn't it the nature of federation that a copy of every post gets sent to... a ton of different servers?
- kungtotte 7y agoIt's a problem because it's not part of the social contract of AP federation.