mastodon-android VS mastodon-ios

Mastodon app is built like that, the release apk is around 3 Mb, ~half of which is resources: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android

Though it's not without compromises — because of Google's stupid policy that "nothing goes into the system unless it needs direct access to privileged or private system components", RecyclerView, ViewPager, and some other basic UI components are still AndroidX libraries that depend on AppCompat for no good reason. I had to fork them to rid them of that dependency: https://github.com/grishka/LiteX

You should file an issue https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android

Mastodon (version 45): Decentralized social network

I love that Mastodon is decentralized. But as a privacy engineer, I was curious about how their app handles our data compared to what they claim in their privacy policy, so I analyzed their open-source app code in my privacy code scanning tool.

We tried to analyze if the actual application code (which is open-source) actually adheres to the privacy policy as declared by mastodon.social server. Therefore, we ran the Privado privacy scanner on Mastodon’s Android application code.

this was fixed yesterday, see this issue in the bugtracker: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/298

Looks like it got removed

Note that you’d need to open source your derivative app as well: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/blob/develop/LICENSE

The official app is pretty good and cross-platform. I use Tusky on Android, and really like it. A couple of other tech instances are

If the goal is to improve the Mastodon app to make it a better experience for all users, I'd suggest submitting an issue on the app's github page to make them aware of the issue. In my experience, opensource communities are very eager to solve problems.

This was a minor hullabaloo back when the app launched.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/221

I find that there are lots of Mastodon clients but whole lot of them are in the development phase, or some other apps are similar to each other. I'm reading some exchange between Eugen Rochko (founder of the Mastodon) and some user, talking about development of Mastodon. Eugen has pretty peculiar views about Mastodon and Fediverse development (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/221) and I really don't agree with him at all. There were also some open letters calling for resignation of Eugen from Mastodon development (https://seedy.xyz/posts/0005-open-letter/) .