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There are also lots of other interesting clients not from Tapbots. If losing Tweetbot was enough to make you look at Mastodon, keep that open mind and look at a

There are also lots of other interesting clients not from Tapbots. If losing Tweetbot was enough to make you look at Mastodon, keep that open mind and look at all the interesting clients out there.

tptacek 4y ago
I'm test-driving Mammoth right now, and spent a couple weeks in MetaText (which is I think not maintained anymore, but it worked fine).
- johns 4y ago
  Try Mastoot
- WorldMaker 4y ago
  I remember a few years back when those positions were reversed. Mastodon iOS app devs are mostly doing it out of love or passion and so seem prone to interesting hiatuses. Though Mastodon is usually "stable" enough and "feature complete" enough and not generally a fast-changing target outside of big migratory transitions like this recent one, so those devs I think are generally more than welcome to whatever hiatuses they need. For what it is worth, in my own iOS usage, I used Mammoth for a few months (and still follow its developer) and then eventually settled on Toot! Toot!'s developer was on hiatus just before Mastodon 4 (and the Twitter meltdown) so it got mentioned as "no longer maintained" or ignored/overlooked entirely by a lot of suggestions lists for people coming fresh to Mastodon. But it was rock solid and feature complete with Mastodon 3.x and the developer had earned a hiatus for a job well done. The developer also came back and worked to quickly catch up on Mastodon 4 changes (none of which had been truly a show stopper, mind you), though I think a slight bit late for so many newcomers from Twitter seem to have overlooked Toot!. Anyway, Toot! is great if you need a recommendation from a random HN user who has been Mastodon since a previous era. (I started getting serious about Mastodon round about 2016, myself.)
  - tptacek 4y ago
    I'd use Toot! but (besides the name, gag) it won't run on an M1 Macbook the way Mammoth will.
    - WorldMaker 4y ago
      I like the name. I don't know why "social media communities" should be professional at all times and afraid to be silly rather than serious. I like some fun there and it is a name that amuses me. I'm in the class of iOS users without any personal macOS devices, so that's not a consideration I was aware of, but that does make sense.
kennydude 4y ago
Ice Cubes is another great example. Very exciting times! https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp
- thecosas 4y ago
  (Unfortunately) related: they were rejected initially: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34444514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34444514 Good news: It looks like that's since been resolved shortly after Gruber's post. https://mastodon.social/@icecubesapp@mastodon.cloud/109717566939483722 https://mastodon.social/@icecubesapp@mastodon.cloud/10971756...
MattDemers 4y ago
Metatext on IOS is good. https://elk.zone/ https://elk.zone/ https://pinafore.social/ https://pinafore.social/
wnevets 4y ago
what about the official client that everyone hates? The Android client seems to work well for me.

There are also lots of other interesting clients not from Tapbots. If losing Tweetbot was enough to make you look at Mastodon, keep that open mind and look at all the interesting clients out there.

tptacek 4y ago

I'm test-driving Mammoth right now, and spent a couple weeks in MetaText (which is I think not maintained anymore, but it worked fine).

johns 4y ago
Try Mastoot
WorldMaker 4y ago
I remember a few years back when those positions were reversed. Mastodon iOS app devs are mostly doing it out of love or passion and so seem prone to interesting hiatuses. Though Mastodon is usually "stable" enough and "feature complete" enough and not generally a fast-changing target outside of big migratory transitions like this recent one, so those devs I think are generally more than welcome to whatever hiatuses they need. For what it is worth, in my own iOS usage, I used Mammoth for a few months (and still follow its developer) and then eventually settled on Toot! Toot!'s developer was on hiatus just before Mastodon 4 (and the Twitter meltdown) so it got mentioned as "no longer maintained" or ignored/overlooked entirely by a lot of suggestions lists for people coming fresh to Mastodon. But it was rock solid and feature complete with Mastodon 3.x and the developer had earned a hiatus for a job well done. The developer also came back and worked to quickly catch up on Mastodon 4 changes (none of which had been truly a show stopper, mind you), though I think a slight bit late for so many newcomers from Twitter seem to have overlooked Toot!. Anyway, Toot! is great if you need a recommendation from a random HN user who has been Mastodon since a previous era. (I started getting serious about Mastodon round about 2016, myself.)
- tptacek 4y ago
  I'd use Toot! but (besides the name, gag) it won't run on an M1 Macbook the way Mammoth will.
  - WorldMaker 4y ago
    I like the name. I don't know why "social media communities" should be professional at all times and afraid to be silly rather than serious. I like some fun there and it is a name that amuses me. I'm in the class of iOS users without any personal macOS devices, so that's not a consideration I was aware of, but that does make sense.

kennydude 4y ago

Ice Cubes is another great example. Very exciting times! https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp

thecosas 4y ago
(Unfortunately) related: they were rejected initially: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34444514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34444514 Good news: It looks like that's since been resolved shortly after Gruber's post. https://mastodon.social/@icecubesapp@mastodon.cloud/109717566939483722 https://mastodon.social/@icecubesapp@mastodon.cloud/10971756...

MattDemers 4y ago

Metatext on IOS is good. https://elk.zone/ https://elk.zone/ https://pinafore.social/ https://pinafore.social/

wnevets 4y ago

what about the official client that everyone hates? The Android client seems to work well for me.