@agatha@tech.lgbtgood moment to remind you that if you're on Android and using mastodon app, consider switching to megalodon or moshidon
trust me, there's no downsides
I'll say this here because i think the intent was not clear, i mentioned those two in particular because they are forks, and therefore have the same look and feel as the official app, while just being better
there are many other great apps for android, and you may find suggestions on this comment section too!
@deilann@agatha especially if your instance doesn't use vanilla mastodon!
the official mastodon app won't recognize a lot of customization of your instance
@agatha@deilann oh yeah, it can do akkoma stuff too
@deilann@agatha last time i dared to touch the thing, it thought we had default character limit
it's bad at even just basic changes
@agatha@deilann that's why it suggests dot social
cause it doesn't work properly on other instances lol
@deilann@agatha the official reason was retention which i believe
well, retention wasn't the word
but to smooth the onboarding process
deconfusify it
because any person who considers joining a mastodon instance and then doesn't is lost growth
growth growth growth
gotta grow if you wanna replace twitter
@dav1d@fedi.dav1d.xyz @agatha@dav1d the second most likely
@deilannspecifically the super patronizing route over actual community management like warning people posts are more than 3 months old because that's "usually an accident" -
i wanna know how they determined those metrics because if that's not something they made up, it's a bit disturbing they're doing analytics like that
@agatha adding Tusky to the list
@agatha@noiob tusky is completely different, i was suggesting direct replacements, but sure absolutely give tusky a try!
@agatha oh, are those forks of the official app? Tusky does orient itself pretty closely to the interface (or the way that it was when it first came out, the multi-column view is really hidden away these days)
@agatha@noiob yeah, megalodon is the fork, moshidon is the fork's fork
@agatha I do like that they named it after a shark
@agatha whats the consensus on tusky?
@agatha@guites i didn't mentioned tusky because those two are forks of the official app, tusky is a different app completely
i would try all and see which one you prefer, they're all valid options
@nyati@blahaj.zone@guites@bolha.us @agatha@tech.lgbt a friend of mine strongly recommended tusky, so I never used the official one for more than a few days. but I recall finding tusky slightly better and still use it.
@agatha using https://phanpy.social/ as an installed web app on Android works really well for me
@GrayGooGirl@mstdn.games@agatha
Fedilab is also quite good!
@sleepybisexual@fearness.org@agatha@tech.lgbt I agree. moshidon is a very good app
Luana @luana@agatha For those on iOS, Feditext is awesome
Luana @luana@agatha Also, back when I joined fedi it was pretty much consensus that the Mastodon official apps sucked? Why’re people using it now?
@agatha@luana I'm just targetting new users
@agatha thanks for the callout
@agatha@tech.lgbt Fedilab has a couple more features iirc but it's also less user-friendly so I wouldn't recomment it to everyone