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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've reinstalled it to take a shniff and I'm impressed so far, very clean and functional.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

You can also use kbin to read, comment and boost mastodon 'toots'. That's what I do anyway.

[–] wutBEE 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Any way to get the iOS apps to open Mastodon links by default?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ivory can do this via its Safari extension, and it does support Universal Links for select instances. It’s difficult to implement Universal Links for the fediverse because each instance would have to add an association file to their servers, and even if all instances add this, there’s a limit to how many domains you can support in an app

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ivory can do this via its Safari extension, and it does support Universal Links for select instances. It’s difficult to implement Universal Links for the fediverse because each instance would have to add an association file to their servers, and if all instances add this file to their servers, there’s a limit to how many domains you can support in an app.