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An idea for improvement. When I click "Add personal note" and it opens the modal, the focus should be on the text field. Like, I opened that option to type the note.
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An idea for improvement. When I click "Add personal note" and it opens the modal, the focus should be on the text field. Like, I opened that option to type the note.
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As you may know, the Manfred App was conceived with the ambition of being cross-platform back in early 2023. Although a test release for #Android was published that year, the focus has been on iOS and macOS ever since. I am therefore delighted to announce that I have made significant progress in terms of Android compatibility, and the app will be available on that platform too. In fact, I updated the old test version. So feel free to try it out!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.codehex.manfred_app
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As you may know, the Manfred App was conceived with the ambition of being cross-platform back in early 2023. Although a test release for #Android was published that year, the focus has been on iOS and macOS ever since. I am therefore delighted to announce that I have made significant progress in terms of Android compatibility, and the app will be available on that platform too. In fact, I updated the old test version. So feel free to try it out!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.codehex.manfred_app
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#Toot has transitioned from an unfinished project to something that's actually useful.
Here's a list of improvements:
⁃ Compose posts (not just replies), CWs, visibility picker, delete posts
⁃ Follow/mute/block, hashtag following, tabbed search w/ trending tags
⁃ Notification filters + inline follow requests
⁃ Favorites, Bookmarks & Lists now fully working
⁃ Theme picker, feed density options, hide boosts/replies
⁃ Multi-account support
⁃ Instant-load cache for timelines, notifications, and images
⁃ Full-size media viewer, tons of bug fixes & polishI’ll continue working on it, hope to publish soon to #Flathub!
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#Toot has transitioned from an unfinished project to something that's actually useful.
Here's a list of improvements:
⁃ Compose posts (not just replies), CWs, visibility picker, delete posts
⁃ Follow/mute/block, hashtag following, tabbed search w/ trending tags
⁃ Notification filters + inline follow requests
⁃ Favorites, Bookmarks & Lists now fully working
⁃ Theme picker, feed density options, hide boosts/replies
⁃ Multi-account support
⁃ Instant-load cache for timelines, notifications, and images
⁃ Full-size media viewer, tons of bug fixes & polishI’ll continue working on it, hope to publish soon to #Flathub!
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RE: https://techhub.social/@manfred_app/116908134280371516
And #Apple is fast with app reviews for #macOS these days… so v2.1.0 of the #ManfredApp was accepted and is rolling out to the AppStore. :pensive_party_blob:
However, the iOS/iPadOS version is still stuck in review for v2.0.0
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RE: https://techhub.social/@manfred_app/116908134280371516
And #Apple is fast with app reviews for #macOS these days… so v2.1.0 of the #ManfredApp was accepted and is rolling out to the AppStore. :pensive_party_blob:
However, the iOS/iPadOS version is still stuck in review for v2.0.0
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#ManfredApp finally reached v2.0.0 and was released for #macOS today. There have been some great improvements and it comes with a lot of cool features. For example: you can now configure as many columns as you want for timelines, hashtags, lists, notifications and so on... and finally, push notifications (!!!) have found their way into Manfred. This has been really tricky, but it's done now. So grab your copy while it's hot. Version 2.1.0 has already been submitted to Apple. The app is still free during this phase since I am hoping for some feedback :) #MastodonApp #MastodonClient #Mastodon
In detail, v2.0.0 brings the following features:
- Per-account push notification settings with unread badges
- Grouped notifications that show multiple actions at a glance
- Direct message conversations with read/unread indicators
- Quote post support with visibility controls
- Edit your own posts
- Hashtag muting and hashtag column management
- Improved video playback with better controls and visibility-based autoplay
- Unread notification badges on the app icon and navigation
- Better handling of server rate limits with automatic retry
- Swipe-to-dismiss gesture for video detail view
- Set the focal point of image attachments before posting and preview how they'll look in timelines
- Enhanced performance with improved caching and scroll handling
- Bug fixes and stability improvementshttps://apps.apple.com/de/app/manfred-for-mastodon/id1667817813
Manfred for Mastodon -
#ManfredApp finally reached v2.0.0 and was released for #macOS today. There have been some great improvements and it comes with a lot of cool features. For example: you can now configure as many columns as you want for timelines, hashtags, lists, notifications and so on... and finally, push notifications (!!!) have found their way into Manfred. This has been really tricky, but it's done now. So grab your copy while it's hot. Version 2.1.0 has already been submitted to Apple. The app is still free during this phase since I am hoping for some feedback :) #MastodonApp #MastodonClient #Mastodon
In detail, v2.0.0 brings the following features:
- Per-account push notification settings with unread badges
- Grouped notifications that show multiple actions at a glance
- Direct message conversations with read/unread indicators
- Quote post support with visibility controls
- Edit your own posts
- Hashtag muting and hashtag column management
- Improved video playback with better controls and visibility-based autoplay
- Unread notification badges on the app icon and navigation
- Better handling of server rate limits with automatic retry
- Swipe-to-dismiss gesture for video detail view
- Set the focal point of image attachments before posting and preview how they'll look in timelines
- Enhanced performance with improved caching and scroll handling
- Bug fixes and stability improvementshttps://apps.apple.com/de/app/manfred-for-mastodon/id1667817813
Manfred for Mastodon -
The upcoming release of the #ManfredApp will finally feature the configuration of custom columns and support for lists. Also the ability to switch the identity on the post screen just for the post. Here are some screenshots from my iPad. #MastodonClient #MastodonApp
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The upcoming release of the #ManfredApp will finally feature the configuration of custom columns and support for lists. Also the ability to switch the identity on the post screen just for the post. Here are some screenshots from my iPad. #MastodonClient #MastodonApp
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Das Problem besteht noch immer. #ios #mastodonapp #mastodon #iphone
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Das Problem besteht noch immer. #ios #mastodonapp #mastodon #iphone
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My default follow button on the Mastodon iPhone app is stuck on unfollow for any new user I come across. I'm not following them yet but the app has the unfollow button instead of follow button. I'm required to push the unfollow button first before I can then follow anyone. Anyone else experiencing this? #mastodon #mastodonclient #mastodonapp #mastodonbug #askfedi
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My default follow button on the Mastodon iPhone app is stuck on unfollow for any new user I come across. I'm not following them yet but the app has the unfollow button instead of follow button. I'm required to push the unfollow button first before I can then follow anyone. Anyone else experiencing this? #mastodon #mastodonclient #mastodonapp #mastodonbug #askfedi
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Glückwunsch, die #MastodonApp unter #Android stürzt bei mir nun Instant ab, nach einem Update. #Mastodon
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Glückwunsch, die #MastodonApp unter #Android stürzt bei mir nun Instant ab, nach einem Update. #Mastodon
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Another new improvement is highlighting of usernames when someone mentions you. They now use a bold yellow highlight to stand out from regular mentions.
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Another new improvement is highlighting of usernames when someone mentions you. They now use a bold yellow highlight to stand out from regular mentions.
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They mucked up the compose window in Android. If i write enough text to need to scroll, i can't- and any attempt to move the text will drag a text selection that highlights text on screen instead of dragging new text into view. Very frustrating to have my keyboard appear in the way when I'm just trying to see more text
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They mucked up the compose window in Android. If i write enough text to need to scroll, i can't- and any attempt to move the text will drag a text selection that highlights text on screen instead of dragging new text into view. Very frustrating to have my keyboard appear in the way when I'm just trying to see more text
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@Pawlicker About "reply gating": This, or something similar, has been a standard feature at least on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte from the get-go, i.e. from their respective creation on. Hubzilla has had it since 2012. All three rely heavily on permissions for anything and everything. They can make themselves and each other hide the reply button. When someone wants to comment from Mastodon or something else that doesn't understand these permissions, these three simply reject unpermitted comments before they even reach the inbox.
On Hubzilla, the channel-wide permission to comment also includes a permission to like or dislike something. I can generally allow- only myself
- only certain contacts
- only my contacts
- only my contacts plus those with an unapproved contact request
- anyone on the same Hubzilla hub as me
- anyone on Hubzilla (strangely, this does exclude (streams) channels)
- anyone in the Fediverse
- anyone anywhere on the Web, even without a Fediverse account
In addition, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. Mind you, if it's a reply, it isn't a post, it's a comment, and I've got no control over it.
On (streams) and Forte, the channel-wide permission to comment is uncoupled from the permission to like or dislike. The channel-wide options are- only myself plus certain contacts
- only my contacts
- anyone in the Fediverse
- anyone anywhere on the Web, even without a Fediverse account
On top of that, I can generally allow comments only for a certain number of days.
Again, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. But I can also only allow my contacts to comment on specific posts, and I can define until when comments are allowed on specific posts.
In all three cases, I can even choose to preview technically unpermitted comments and then decide whether I allow or reject them, one by one.
In other words, where I am (I'm commenting from Hubzilla), this not only has been available for longer than Mastodon has even existed, but it's deeply engrained into the culture.
About "quote gating": Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte have all always (in Friendica's case, since 2010) had both actual quotes like on bulletin-board forums (remember the 2000s when forums were all the rage?) and Twitter-quote-tweet-style quote-posts (which literally were the only way for them to share content before they adopted Twitter-retweet-style forwarding).
The former obviously only works in comments. Whether or not it's allowed is defined by whether or not comments are allowed.
The latter doesn't have any permission setting, not even on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte with the most advanced permissions systems in the whole Fediverse. That's because their inventor says that it's technologically impossible to keep people from forwarding or sharing your content in separate posts.
If you disallow actual quote-posts, people can still copy-paste the content of your post into a new post. Unlike when you're actually being quote-posted, you won't even notice unless they mention you. Mind you, while an estimated 60% of all Mastodon users are on iPhones, and another estimated 39% are on Android phones, 100% of all Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte users are on desktop or laptop computers where copy-paste is easy-peasy. It's pretty much impossible to disallow copy-paste, and even if it was, people would resort to screenshots.
You don't want people to quote-post your stuff? Then don't make it public. Once it's public, it's out there, and anyone can do with it whatever they please.
Nobody really misses an actual permission for quote-posts. That's also because Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte aren't primarily a home for Twitter refugees. In fact, neither of them can even understand the ruckus about quote-posts on Mastodon, and neither can Friendica users. Hardly any of them have been on Twitter at any point in the 2020s. There's no influence of Twitter culture anywhere to be found.
The typical path into Hubzilla is not Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Hubzilla. Not even Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Friendica > Hubzilla. It's Facebook > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. Or Facebook > Google+ > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. The typical path into (streams) is the same, but one step further beyond Hubzilla. The typical path into Forte is the same as into (streams), but another step further beyond (streams).
About the iPhone: Whether or not the iPhone is a status symbol depends on where you are.
In the USA, the iPhone is the Levi's jeans of phones. It's the Ford F-150 of phones. The allegedly all-American American phone. Most importantly, it's what everyone has.
Over here in Germany, the iPhone is the higher-class Mercedes-Benz of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG E 53 of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro Max is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG S 63 E Performance of phones, slammed suspensions, standing on polished 22" Lexani wheels, muffler cut-outs always open. In American terms, it's the 2026 Cadillac Escalade-V of phones, gold-foiled, with air-ride, standing on gold-plated 26" Bellagio spinnaz. The phone made for peacocking in rap music video clips. It's the Rolex of phones. For women, it's the genuine Prada or Fendi or Louis Vuitton handbag of phones.
Well, and then there's the iPhone 4S with the cracked screen. It's the 1995 Mercedes-Benz E-Class of phones. Old, worn out, four-banger engine, often rusty as hell, may have been stolen at some point, but it's cheap. And most importantly, it's still a Benz, and it's a real Benz as opposed to "Baby Benz" C-Class and smaller. The Benz for those who need a Benz to show their folks how much of a winner they are, but who can't really afford one.
Over here, the Samsung Galaxy S is the VW Golf of phones. The Americans' Ford F-150 of phones. It's what everyone has. It's the no-brainer that you buy when you don't know what to buy, so you buy what everyone buys. Still, it's expensive for what it does. But all the other brands are akin to "cheap imports" from, what, France or Italy or Japan or Korea or Romania.
The choice of the hardcore nerds in the homeland of Chaos Computer Club and Chaos Communication Congress is never something that can only run stock Android. It's an iPhone even less. They rather buy a Google Pixel, and the first thing they do is root it immediately and install GrapheneOS. Or if they refuse to buy something from Google and/or run a Google OS (de-Googled or not), they acquire a Sony Experia, root it and install SailfishOS. Or they go straight for a Fairphone or even the new Jolla Phone or something like that. I'm pretty sure many want a true successor to the Nokia N900.
If Google locks Android down, these nerds won't flock to Apple. Some may switch to SailfishOS which, on officially supported phones, has the Aliendalvik compatibility layer for Android apps, but only with F-Droid and neither with the Google Play Store proper nor with Micro-G. Many more will go entirely elsewhere like PostmarketOS or PureOS, also seeing as SailfishOS is payware that's half proprietary and closed-source. Or they'll forgo mobile phones entirely or keep old phones alive for as long as they can.
About iOS apps: I guess the notion that the Fediverse equals Mastodon, something that the majorty of Mastodon users believe, is particularly wide-spread among iPhone users. And if it isn't only Mastodon, it doesn't extend beyond Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube. Excluding Pixelfed and PeerTube, if Mastodon can't do it, the Fediverse as a whole can't. I mean, on top of the fact that apps made for Mastodon generally only support Mastodon features because the Mastodon Client API only supports Mastodon features, and the Mastodon Client API is all that these apps understand.
It's particularly bad for Friendica users. If they're on Android, they may opt for a Mastodon app. There are several Android apps for Mastodon that have been reported to work with Friendica. Or they may want to try one of the dedicated Friendica apps which are at various levels of unfinished. Or they may choose the middle-ground and use Fedilab.
But if they're on an iPhone, they'll discover that literally not even a single Mastodon iOS app works with Friendica. There is no Fedilab. And the iOS version of RaccoonForFriendica requires Test Flight, and it's probably even more incomplete than the Android version.
In general, iPhone apps are rarely developed for the same reasons as Android apps. Most Android Fediverse apps are open-source and under a free license, and they're also or exclusively available on F-Droid. They're developed by FLOSS enthusiasts/idealists. However, these people don't develop for iOS. That's because the Apple App Store is inherently hostile towards free software, and it's completely incompatible with all versions of the GNU General Public License.
Also, as you've already pointed out, you absolutely need a Mac to develop iOS apps. But if someone releases FLOSS apps on F-Droid, you can bet they're running GNU/Linux at home (more often Arch or a derivative than you may think), and they won't touch any corporate-made, closed-source OS with a 10-foot barge pole. They may even steer clear of anything where Novell, Red Hat or Canonical is involved.
With hobbyist FLOSS enthusiasts out of the way of developing iPhone apps, this is only ever done by those who do it for money. Or fame and social status (same reason why they always have a fairly new iPhone). Or both. But then they discovered that the Fediverse, to them at least, is a hive of radical leftist tech nerds whom you can't impress with expensive bling-bling from big American gigacorps. They failed to gather the umpteen thousand followers they wanted. So they left for greener pastures: Bluesky. Or they even went back to their hundreds of thousands of followers on 𝕏. Doing so, they also abandoned their iPhone app development.
By the way, none of this affects Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. For starters, just like Friendica, all four can be installed as Progressive Web Apps. However, at least in the case of these three, there is no alternative to the Web interface whatsoever. There's an old Android app for Hubzilla named Nomad, but it's only available on F-Droid, it hasn't been worked on since December, 2019, it only runs on older Android versions and Aliendalvik, and it's only a wrapper for the Web interface anyway. For (streams) and Forte, there's zilch.
There has been some talk about developing a native mobile Hubzilla app. It's kind of difficult, though. Generally, Hubzilla users use Hubzilla on desktop OS's. They can't imagine people daily-driving phones as their main or only end-user devices, so they think that a Hubzilla app only needs the features one would need when out and about because everyone will go back to their desktop or laptop computers anyway when they're back home.
In reality, many users of the Hubzilla app will only use that app. They won't use Hubzilla's Web interface in a browser. They won't use it on a desktop or laptop computer either, usually because they simply don't have one. They'll resort to that app for everything. In fact, they'll perceive Hubzilla as a phone app rather than a Fediverse server application. This means that a Hubzilla mobile app will inevitably have to cover all of Hubzilla's features except those that really don't make sense in a phone app (e.g. the PDL editor). But a fully-featured Hubzilla app would be so complex, it'd make infamous K-9 Mail pale in comparison.
Licensing is the least problem here. Hubzilla and Forte are released under the MIT license, (streams) was released into the public domain. So I guess putting an app for either of them under the MIT license would be an option, one that's fairly compatible with the Apple App Store even. It's just that this app would be bound to be an absolute monster.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #QuotePost #QuotePosts #QuoteTweet #QuoteTweets #QuoteToot #QuoteToots #QuoteBoost #QuoteBoosts #QuotedShares #QuotePostDebate #QuoteTootDebate #ReplyControl #Permissions #MastodonApp #MastodonApps #FediverseApp #FediverseApps #iOS #iOSApp #iOSApps #iPhone #iPhoneApp #iPhoneApps #Android #AndroidApp #AndroidApps -
@Pawlicker About "reply gating": This, or something similar, has been a standard feature at least on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte from the get-go, i.e. from their respective creation on. Hubzilla has had it since 2012. All three rely heavily on permissions for anything and everything. They can make themselves and each other hide the reply button. When someone wants to comment from Mastodon or something else that doesn't understand these permissions, these three simply reject unpermitted comments before they even reach the inbox.
On Hubzilla, the channel-wide permission to comment also includes a permission to like or dislike something. I can generally allow- only myself
- only certain contacts
- only my contacts
- only my contacts plus those with an unapproved contact request
- anyone on the same Hubzilla hub as me
- anyone on Hubzilla (strangely, this does exclude (streams) channels)
- anyone in the Fediverse
- anyone anywhere on the Web, even without a Fediverse account
In addition, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. Mind you, if it's a reply, it isn't a post, it's a comment, and I've got no control over it.
On (streams) and Forte, the channel-wide permission to comment is uncoupled from the permission to like or dislike. The channel-wide options are- only myself plus certain contacts
- only my contacts
- anyone in the Fediverse
- anyone anywhere on the Web, even without a Fediverse account
On top of that, I can generally allow comments only for a certain number of days.
Again, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. But I can also only allow my contacts to comment on specific posts, and I can define until when comments are allowed on specific posts.
In all three cases, I can even choose to preview technically unpermitted comments and then decide whether I allow or reject them, one by one.
In other words, where I am (I'm commenting from Hubzilla), this not only has been available for longer than Mastodon has even existed, but it's deeply engrained into the culture.
About "quote gating": Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte have all always (in Friendica's case, since 2010) had both actual quotes like on bulletin-board forums (remember the 2000s when forums were all the rage?) and Twitter-quote-tweet-style quote-posts (which literally were the only way for them to share content before they adopted Twitter-retweet-style forwarding).
The former obviously only works in comments. Whether or not it's allowed is defined by whether or not comments are allowed.
The latter doesn't have any permission setting, not even on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte with the most advanced permissions systems in the whole Fediverse. That's because their inventor says that it's technologically impossible to keep people from forwarding or sharing your content in separate posts.
If you disallow actual quote-posts, people can still copy-paste the content of your post into a new post. Unlike when you're actually being quote-posted, you won't even notice unless they mention you. Mind you, while an estimated 60% of all Mastodon users are on iPhones, and another estimated 39% are on Android phones, 100% of all Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte users are on desktop or laptop computers where copy-paste is easy-peasy. It's pretty much impossible to disallow copy-paste, and even if it was, people would resort to screenshots.
You don't want people to quote-post your stuff? Then don't make it public. Once it's public, it's out there, and anyone can do with it whatever they please.
Nobody really misses an actual permission for quote-posts. That's also because Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte aren't primarily a home for Twitter refugees. In fact, neither of them can even understand the ruckus about quote-posts on Mastodon, and neither can Friendica users. Hardly any of them have been on Twitter at any point in the 2020s. There's no influence of Twitter culture anywhere to be found.
The typical path into Hubzilla is not Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Hubzilla. Not even Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Friendica > Hubzilla. It's Facebook > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. Or Facebook > Google+ > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. The typical path into (streams) is the same, but one step further beyond Hubzilla. The typical path into Forte is the same as into (streams), but another step further beyond (streams).
About the iPhone: Whether or not the iPhone is a status symbol depends on where you are.
In the USA, the iPhone is the Levi's jeans of phones. It's the Ford F-150 of phones. The allegedly all-American American phone. Most importantly, it's what everyone has.
Over here in Germany, the iPhone is the higher-class Mercedes-Benz of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG E 53 of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro Max is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG S 63 E Performance of phones, slammed suspensions, standing on polished 22" Lexani wheels, muffler cut-outs always open. In American terms, it's the 2026 Cadillac Escalade-V of phones, gold-foiled, with air-ride, standing on gold-plated 26" Bellagio spinnaz. The phone made for peacocking in rap music video clips. It's the Rolex of phones. For women, it's the genuine Prada or Fendi or Louis Vuitton handbag of phones.
Well, and then there's the iPhone 4S with the cracked screen. It's the 1995 Mercedes-Benz E-Class of phones. Old, worn out, four-banger engine, often rusty as hell, may have been stolen at some point, but it's cheap. And most importantly, it's still a Benz, and it's a real Benz as opposed to "Baby Benz" C-Class and smaller. The Benz for those who need a Benz to show their folks how much of a winner they are, but who can't really afford one.
Over here, the Samsung Galaxy S is the VW Golf of phones. The Americans' Ford F-150 of phones. It's what everyone has. It's the no-brainer that you buy when you don't know what to buy, so you buy what everyone buys. Still, it's expensive for what it does. But all the other brands are akin to "cheap imports" from, what, France or Italy or Japan or Korea or Romania.
The choice of the hardcore nerds in the homeland of Chaos Computer Club and Chaos Communication Congress is never something that can only run stock Android. It's an iPhone even less. They rather buy a Google Pixel, and the first thing they do is root it immediately and install GrapheneOS. Or if they refuse to buy something from Google and/or run a Google OS (de-Googled or not), they acquire a Sony Experia, root it and install SailfishOS. Or they go straight for a Fairphone or even the new Jolla Phone or something like that. I'm pretty sure many want a true successor to the Nokia N900.
If Google locks Android down, these nerds won't flock to Apple. Some may switch to SailfishOS which, on officially supported phones, has the Aliendalvik compatibility layer for Android apps, but only with F-Droid and neither with the Google Play Store proper nor with Micro-G. Many more will go entirely elsewhere like PostmarketOS or PureOS, also seeing as SailfishOS is payware that's half proprietary and closed-source. Or they'll forgo mobile phones entirely or keep old phones alive for as long as they can.
About iOS apps: I guess the notion that the Fediverse equals Mastodon, something that the majorty of Mastodon users believe, is particularly wide-spread among iPhone users. And if it isn't only Mastodon, it doesn't extend beyond Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube. Excluding Pixelfed and PeerTube, if Mastodon can't do it, the Fediverse as a whole can't. I mean, on top of the fact that apps made for Mastodon generally only support Mastodon features because the Mastodon Client API only supports Mastodon features, and the Mastodon Client API is all that these apps understand.
It's particularly bad for Friendica users. If they're on Android, they may opt for a Mastodon app. There are several Android apps for Mastodon that have been reported to work with Friendica. Or they may want to try one of the dedicated Friendica apps which are at various levels of unfinished. Or they may choose the middle-ground and use Fedilab.
But if they're on an iPhone, they'll discover that literally not even a single Mastodon iOS app works with Friendica. There is no Fedilab. And the iOS version of RaccoonForFriendica requires Test Flight, and it's probably even more incomplete than the Android version.
In general, iPhone apps are rarely developed for the same reasons as Android apps. Most Android Fediverse apps are open-source and under a free license, and they're also or exclusively available on F-Droid. They're developed by FLOSS enthusiasts/idealists. However, these people don't develop for iOS. That's because the Apple App Store is inherently hostile towards free software, and it's completely incompatible with all versions of the GNU General Public License.
Also, as you've already pointed out, you absolutely need a Mac to develop iOS apps. But if someone releases FLOSS apps on F-Droid, you can bet they're running GNU/Linux at home (more often Arch or a derivative than you may think), and they won't touch any corporate-made, closed-source OS with a 10-foot barge pole. They may even steer clear of anything where Novell, Red Hat or Canonical is involved.
With hobbyist FLOSS enthusiasts out of the way of developing iPhone apps, this is only ever done by those who do it for money. Or fame and social status (same reason why they always have a fairly new iPhone). Or both. But then they discovered that the Fediverse, to them at least, is a hive of radical leftist tech nerds whom you can't impress with expensive bling-bling from big American gigacorps. They failed to gather the umpteen thousand followers they wanted. So they left for greener pastures: Bluesky. Or they even went back to their hundreds of thousands of followers on 𝕏. Doing so, they also abandoned their iPhone app development.
By the way, none of this affects Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. For starters, just like Friendica, all four can be installed as Progressive Web Apps. However, at least in the case of these three, there is no alternative to the Web interface whatsoever. There's an old Android app for Hubzilla named Nomad, but it's only available on F-Droid, it hasn't been worked on since December, 2019, it only runs on older Android versions and Aliendalvik, and it's only a wrapper for the Web interface anyway. For (streams) and Forte, there's zilch.
There has been some talk about developing a native mobile Hubzilla app. It's kind of difficult, though. Generally, Hubzilla users use Hubzilla on desktop OS's. They can't imagine people daily-driving phones as their main or only end-user devices, so they think that a Hubzilla app only needs the features one would need when out and about because everyone will go back to their desktop or laptop computers anyway when they're back home.
In reality, many users of the Hubzilla app will only use that app. They won't use Hubzilla's Web interface in a browser. They won't use it on a desktop or laptop computer either, usually because they simply don't have one. They'll resort to that app for everything. In fact, they'll perceive Hubzilla as a phone app rather than a Fediverse server application. This means that a Hubzilla mobile app will inevitably have to cover all of Hubzilla's features except those that really don't make sense in a phone app (e.g. the PDL editor). But a fully-featured Hubzilla app would be so complex, it'd make infamous K-9 Mail pale in comparison.
Licensing is the least problem here. Hubzilla and Forte are released under the MIT license, (streams) was released into the public domain. So I guess putting an app for either of them under the MIT license would be an option, one that's fairly compatible with the Apple App Store even. It's just that this app would be bound to be an absolute monster.
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I don't know if everyone is settled on a #MastodonApp these days but @elefeed has been my go to app for the last few months.
Mastodon app talk is very quiet compared to a couple years ago but I'm unsure why that is 🤔
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I don't know if everyone is settled on a #MastodonApp these days but @elefeed has been my go to app for the last few months.
Mastodon app talk is very quiet compared to a couple years ago but I'm unsure why that is 🤔
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Desperately seeking an alternative to Ice Cubes for iOS!!
(I don't have the spoons right now for all the explanations about why iOS.)
I really like almost everything about Ice Cubes, but I am ***over*** wasting my limited spoons drafting and re-drafting posts that disappear when the app crashes because the phone tried to transition between portrait and landscape as I changed position.
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Desperately seeking an alternative to Ice Cubes for iOS!!
(I don't have the spoons right now for all the explanations about why iOS.)
I really like almost everything about Ice Cubes, but I am ***over*** wasting my limited spoons drafting and re-drafting posts that disappear when the app crashes because the phone tried to transition between portrait and landscape as I changed position.
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You can now exclude boosts (and include replies at the same time) while viewing someone's profile in #Mastodon mobile app.
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You can now exclude boosts (and include replies at the same time) while viewing someone's profile in #Mastodon mobile app.
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You can now exclude boosts (and include replies at the same time) while viewing someone's profile in #Mastodon mobile app.
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You can now exclude boosts (and include replies at the same time) while viewing someone's profile in #Mastodon mobile app.
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You can now exclude boosts (and include replies at the same time) while viewing someone's profile in #Mastodon mobile app.
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:mastodon: I intended to set some satisfying cartoonish elephant sound as notification sound for my #Mastodon phone app. 🔔🐘 Feel free to reuse! :cc_zero:
:boost_req: If you like, don't forget to share it.
:ablobcatheadphonesfast: Freesound: https://freesound.org/s/854137/ -
:mastodon: I intended to set some satisfying cartoonish elephant sound as notification sound for my #Mastodon phone app. 🔔🐘 Feel free to reuse! :cc_zero:
:boost_req: If you like, don't forget to share it.
:ablobcatheadphonesfast: Freesound: https://freesound.org/s/854137/ -
:mastodon: I intended to set some satisfying cartoonish elephant sound as notification sound for my #Mastodon phone app. 🔔🐘 Feel free to reuse! :cc_zero:
:boost_req: If you like, don't forget to share it.
:ablobcatheadphonesfast: Freesound: https://freesound.org/s/854137/ -
:mastodon: I intended to set some satisfying cartoonish elephant sound as notification sound for my #Mastodon phone app. 🔔🐘 Feel free to reuse! :cc_zero:
:boost_req: If you like, don't forget to share it.
:ablobcatheadphonesfast: Freesound: https://freesound.org/s/854137/ -
:mastodon: I intended to set some satisfying cartoonish elephant sound as notification sound for my #Mastodon phone app. 🔔🐘 Feel free to reuse! :cc_zero:
:boost_req: If you like, don't forget to share it.
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I got a notification that someone edited a post that i interacted with. That's fine, they've had this kind of notification for years. I click out and it shows me the post, right?
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I got a notification that someone edited a post that i interacted with. That's fine, they've had this kind of notification for years. I click out and it shows me the post, right?
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The android Mastodon app changed A LOT of little things that annoy me as i find them but the text entry field is now clearly not designed for toots more than half a screen long because it does not scroll.
I can't scroll in the compose field without selecting text at the same time.
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The android Mastodon app changed A LOT of little things that annoy me as i find them but the text entry field is now clearly not designed for toots more than half a screen long because it does not scroll.
I can't scroll in the compose field without selecting text at the same time.
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I wonder why nobody ever talks about #Moshidon when it comes to #Android apps for #Mastodon . I have just discovered it while searching for a replacement for the official #MastodonApp after the last update unnecessarily removed the ability to access bookmarks and favourites. Why did they even do that? Also, the official app had already shortened the search history to far too few entries for my taste a while ago, and Moshidon gave me back my huge search history.
I don't know what the official app is trying to achieve with removing functionality. It's always been a minimalistic client, but why the short search history when you can just delete your history if it gets too long for your taste? Why no more bookmarks and favourites? I don't understand the motivation behind those changes.
Taking away my 200 or so most recent searches also took a lot of convenience. I hope Moshidon keeps the long history forever, now I need to populate it.
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I wonder why nobody ever talks about #Moshidon when it comes to #Android apps for #Mastodon . I have just discovered it while searching for a replacement for the official #MastodonApp after the last update unnecessarily removed the ability to access bookmarks and favourites. Why did they even do that? Also, the official app had already shortened the search history to far too few entries for my taste a while ago, and Moshidon gave me back my huge search history.
I don't know what the official app is trying to achieve with removing functionality. It's always been a minimalistic client, but why the short search history when you can just delete your history if it gets too long for your taste? Why no more bookmarks and favourites? I don't understand the motivation behind those changes.
Taking away my 200 or so most recent searches also took a lot of convenience. I hope Moshidon keeps the long history forever, now I need to populate it.
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When I first started using Mastodon, I tried #Tusky but I quickly dropped it for the official #MastodonApp because I found it easier to use. However, I'm seriously considering going back to Tusky with all this unnecessary enshittification lately. First they shortened the search history, meaning I couldn't just scroll through pages upon pages of old searches like I used to. Now my bookmarks are unavailable, and I don't know how to use Mastodon without them, or rather, the way I like to use Mastodon relies heavily on bookmarks.
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When I first started using Mastodon, I tried #Tusky but I quickly dropped it for the official #MastodonApp because I found it easier to use. However, I'm seriously considering going back to Tusky with all this unnecessary enshittification lately. First they shortened the search history, meaning I couldn't just scroll through pages upon pages of old searches like I used to. Now my bookmarks are unavailable, and I don't know how to use Mastodon without them, or rather, the way I like to use Mastodon relies heavily on bookmarks.
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What the fuck is this?! The latest update for the Mastodon Android app dropped the likes and bookmarks, or so it seems. I can still like and bookmark toots, but I can't see my favourites and bookmarks anymore. This is bullshit.
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What the fuck is this?! The latest update for the Mastodon Android app dropped the likes and bookmarks, or so it seems. I can still like and bookmark toots, but I can't see my favourites and bookmarks anymore. This is bullshit.
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