The new Mammoth app is a much simpler take on Mastodon
www.theverge.com
Mammoth is definitely one of the best-looking fediverse apps you’ll find.
    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      If you don’t like the yearly/monthly subscription, you can grab the source code and compile the app yourself. Just patch out this line with a return true. You could also remove the check here and get access to a few settings that way.

      To run your own software on iOS you may need to work around Apple’s fuckery (reinstalling the app every week) but I think there are automated tools that’ll help with that.

      Unfortunately you can’t publish your app to the app store (the app is licensed as AGPL and Apple’s app store procedures make it incompatible with most GPL-like licenses, and only the original copyright author had the legal right to relicense the code to allow Apple’s proprietary additions) but perhaps AltStore will accept your fork.

    • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      182·
      10 months ago

      I use a Lemmy app with IAP (Sync)

      It’s great. I literally moved to Lemmy because of Sync.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        10 months ago

        I found Jerboa on the Fdroid store. It’s amazing looks just like Now for Reddit.

    • ANIMATEK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      239·
      10 months ago

      Why wouldn’t you like developers to make a living? Do you expect to get a high quality app for free? Grow up.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The official Mastodon app is fine, but there’s also Ivory, Mona, Fedilab, Ice Cubes, Elk, Mastoot, and many others.

    This openness is part of the whole appeal of the ActivityPub-powered social networking ecosystem, and it has already led to some solid new ideas.

    Now, with the launch of Mammoth 2 for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, the app is going even deeper into curation and personalization: it’s launching a series of “Smart Lists” filled with good posts, a set of suggested people and accounts to follow, and more.

    Most lists are filled with websites and well-known posters, so they’re more like a starting point than a long-term solution.

    The default process has improved over time, but it’s still a lot of work to pick a server, sign up, find people, and get your timeline tuned just the way you like.

    In general, he says he sees the app as a way to explore the entire fediverse, whether it’s on Mastodon or Pixelfed or anywhere else.

    The original article contains 615 words, the summary contains 164 words. Saved 73%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • Slow@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Are you sure this is a new application?

    What about the simplest and most understandable application for beginners, this is the PWA app Pinafore.

    For those who have used third-party applications for Reddit, such as Infinity and Boost, Pinafore will be quite comfortable.

    • Slow@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      The last activity on the page was many months ago.
      On their website page 404

      And where can I find the compiled installation files?

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      192·
      10 months ago

      The whole article exists in Apple-land. Like a tacky stereotype of Apple users, the author never acknowledges it, treating everything Apple as the “default.”

      I don’t have time for articles that consider the 3.5 billion android users to be “outliers.” C’mon, it’s 2023.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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        10 months ago

        And Swift code talking to iOS APIs is magically working on Android? If the app wasn’t developed as cross platform from the start, it won’t be at a later stage. And if it works using cross platform technologies, not publishing it on Android is just stupid. After all, that’s where 70% of all users are.

        • NarendraCzar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          10 months ago

          So someone needs to rewrite the whole application using a appropirate language, Are you saying it would be a tedious work?

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      There’s a lot of that I think with mastodon apps.

      I suspect it’s devs who want to get paid at some point, which on one hand is fair but also raises interesting concerns about how open/FOSS software dev needs to work with respect to money.

      Beyond that, there was some speculation I saw that the iOS dev space is just more interested in designing social media apps. No idea how true that is.