If you only use Mastodon through the official app, you are missing out on lots of features such as scheduled posts, pinned posts, list creation, account redirects and much more.
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If you only use Mastodon through the official app, you are missing out on lots of features such as scheduled posts, pinned posts, list creation, account redirects and much more.
Third party apps and Mastodon's website interface have a lot more features than the official app, and tend to get new features earlier too.
You can find out about all the different ways of using Mastodon in this guide:
️ https://fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use-should-i-use-the-official-app-or-a-third-party-appThe official app is not the only way!
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If you only use Mastodon through the official app, you are missing out on lots of features such as scheduled posts, pinned posts, list creation, account redirects and much more.
Third party apps and Mastodon's website interface have a lot more features than the official app, and tend to get new features earlier too.
You can find out about all the different ways of using Mastodon in this guide:
️ https://fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use-should-i-use-the-official-app-or-a-third-party-appThe official app is not the only way!
@FediTips The list of third-party Mastodon apps could use some expansion. Why not add the one I use — @pachli? I switched to Pachli because it offers one important feature that Tusky lacks: the ability to switch to other apps while writing a Mastodon post, and then come back to it, without losing the text of the uncompleted post.
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@FediTips The list of third-party Mastodon apps could use some expansion. Why not add the one I use — @pachli? I switched to Pachli because it offers one important feature that Tusky lacks: the ability to switch to other apps while writing a Mastodon post, and then come back to it, without losing the text of the uncompleted post.
I'm trying to keep it simple, if there are too many on the list some people can start to feel overwhelmed.
If people want a more complete list there's one on Mastodon's official site at https://joinmastodon.org/apps which I linked to in the guide.
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I'm trying to keep it simple, if there are too many on the list some people can start to feel overwhelmed.
If people want a more complete list there's one on Mastodon's official site at https://joinmastodon.org/apps which I linked to in the guide.
@FediTips I understand not wanting to overwhelm people; certainly, any attempt to be comprehensive would be inappropriate for your purposes.
But I'm not a particularly advanced social media user, and I didn't arrive at the decision to switch from Tusky to Pachli by attempting a comprehensive survey of Mastodon apps in an effort to find the "best" app. I was motivated by an experience just about any new user could have: I found that Tusky lacked a feature I considered basic, simple, and necessary; I looked around for an app that had that feature; I switched to the first one I found (Pachli), and I've stuck with it ever since.
I wanted to be able to navigate away from a post I was writing, copy something, navigate back to my post, and paste in the copied material. To my consternation, I discovered that in Tusky, attempting to do that resulted in losing all my work up to that point. That's bad! Pachli met all my basic social media needs; Tusky did not. I've since then heard that Pachli is basically a fork of Tusky with some glaring bugs fixed. And I heard from the maintainers of Pachli that, simple and basic as the feature I wanted might seem to an end-user, some quite sophisticated programming had been necessary to make it work. Regardless, it was needed.
I suspect many, many other Mastodon users are likely to feel the same way. And I feel your "short list" of Android apps should include at least one app that has this feature — if not Pachli, then some other. But Pachli, as a Tusky fork, looks like a reasonable choice. I agree 100% that comprehensiveness isn't an appropriate goal for your list. But this isn't about comprehensiveness, it's about adequacy — and if one of the best-known apps really isn't adequate, it would make sense to include at least one or two better ones.
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@FediTips I understand not wanting to overwhelm people; certainly, any attempt to be comprehensive would be inappropriate for your purposes.
But I'm not a particularly advanced social media user, and I didn't arrive at the decision to switch from Tusky to Pachli by attempting a comprehensive survey of Mastodon apps in an effort to find the "best" app. I was motivated by an experience just about any new user could have: I found that Tusky lacked a feature I considered basic, simple, and necessary; I looked around for an app that had that feature; I switched to the first one I found (Pachli), and I've stuck with it ever since.
I wanted to be able to navigate away from a post I was writing, copy something, navigate back to my post, and paste in the copied material. To my consternation, I discovered that in Tusky, attempting to do that resulted in losing all my work up to that point. That's bad! Pachli met all my basic social media needs; Tusky did not. I've since then heard that Pachli is basically a fork of Tusky with some glaring bugs fixed. And I heard from the maintainers of Pachli that, simple and basic as the feature I wanted might seem to an end-user, some quite sophisticated programming had been necessary to make it work. Regardless, it was needed.
I suspect many, many other Mastodon users are likely to feel the same way. And I feel your "short list" of Android apps should include at least one app that has this feature — if not Pachli, then some other. But Pachli, as a Tusky fork, looks like a reasonable choice. I agree 100% that comprehensiveness isn't an appropriate goal for your list. But this isn't about comprehensiveness, it's about adequacy — and if one of the best-known apps really isn't adequate, it would make sense to include at least one or two better ones.
