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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 interestin
by 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 Toot!'s developer was on hiatus just before Mastodon 4 (and the Twitter meltdown) so it got mentioned as "no longer maintained" or ignored/overlooked entirely by a lot of suggestions lists for people coming fresh to Mastodon.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 agoI'd use Toot! but (besides the name, gag) it won't run on an M1 Macbook the way Mammoth will.
- WorldMaker 4y agoI 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.