While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its TweetDeck app, Mastodon is launching a significant refresh of its Android app.
  • Chippyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • animist@lemmy.oneEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        I think the reality is just that microblogging is always going to be devoid of content when compared to a messageboard system like lemmy or reddit

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

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

        • fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Nah, man. I get things and people I like spoonfed now by active boosters. The more you interact and add to your network the better it gets.

          • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
            01·
            1 year ago

            I really don’t get how people don’t understand that for mass adoption you need as little fucking friction as possible, lol. What you are doing is just gatekeeping. My experience with Mastodon:

            The home feed is completely empty at first. I can go to some recommendations which are (I think) based on my home instance. I have no idea what those people even talk about so I just follow them to be able to check the platform out at all.

            Looking at the “Trending Topics” (or whatever) tab shows stupid hashtags like #silentsunday or #photomonday. I don’t really care about those and they don’t even matter for my home instance infosec.exchange. So how do I even find any topics I really care about? It’s so much work.

            I’m very technically inclined and I went in with an open mind and am now following quite a few people and have even found properly nice profiles like bellingcat. But that was way too much friction - there should be less, and I’m not talking for me.

            Anyway, I never really used or liked Twitter and Mastodon seems the same. There’s just too many uninformed opinions and people fishing for likes. I don’t care about that, I want proper discussions even if I, IMO completely undeservedly, get downvoted ;) I like Lemmy way more for that.

  • Sneezy McGlassface@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You don’t need to use the official Mastodon apps, they’re not the best way to use Mastodon. The official apps only arrived last year, and they were intended as “Fisher Price My First Mastodon” things with a restricted set of features.

      Third party apps have been around longer than official ones, and include way more features. You can sign in with the same account on all apps.

      :android: On Android try Tusky, Fedilab, Megalodon, Tooot

      :apple_inc: On iPhone/iPad, try Toot!, Ice Cubes, Ivory, Mona

      As per Feditips: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110644814293019308

  • allforthebest@infosec.pubEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I hate Material U design. It is really like the Superflat design for 2020s with rounded corners and it looks really tedious.

    • people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Word.

      Btw is there another Android app for Lemmy other than Jerboa? It feels like one of the biggest victim of the Material You template’s drawbacks.