mastodon-ios-apps vs pinafore

mastodon-ios-apps

An ongoing, (hopefully) complete, collaborative list of all Mastodon apps on iOS. (by extratone)

#Mastodon #mastodon-client #mastodon-app #mastodon-api #Federated #Decentralized #iOS #ios-app #List #Collection #Activitypub #Federation

Source Code

joinmastodon.org

pinafore

Alternative web client for Mastodon (UNMAINTAINED) (by nolanlawson)

#Mastodon #Pwa #Fediverse

Source Code

pinafore.social

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mastodon-ios-apps		pinafore
	Project
28	Mentions	11
30	Stars	1,027
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	10.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
HTML	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

mastodon-ios-apps

Posts with mentions or reviews of mastodon-ios-apps. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.

Host your own community if Reddit's API rules go into effect
9 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Jun 2023

Jerboa is for lemmy, here’s some apps for mastodon
Make Twitter Great Again
2 projects | /r/Twitter | 15 Apr 2023

FWIW you might be able to enjoy the Fediverse via a Friendica server (which also interacts with Twitter) if your desktop twitter client isn't hardwired, though likelier to find desktop client/s that suits down amongst joinmastodon.org/apps or just using web-interface. Best wishes anyway
Why Mac speakers sound so good
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2023

> Doesn't have an app
It does have an app. See https://joinmastodon.org/apps for not only the official app, but also literally dozens of third-party apps.
Some popular accounts likely to disappear from Twitter as Elon Musk ends free access to API
2 projects | /r/technology | 3 Feb 2023

There's a whole list of them here: https://joinmastodon.org/apps
Help needed
3 projects | /r/Mastodon | 2 Feb 2023
Mercredi Tech - 2023-01-04
3 projects | /r/france | 4 Jan 2023
AMA with Eugen Rochko, Founder and lead developer of Mastodon, a decentralized, open-source social media platform based on open web protocols. Ask your questions here!
17 projects | /r/Mastodon | 20 Dec 2022

In the meantime, you could try a third party app such as Fedilab or Tusky.
Didn't get the email, now I'm stuck here
8 projects | /r/Mastodon | 18 Dec 2022

You're right, the official app is not very mature. There are four other Android apps listed at https://joinmastodon.org/apps. You may like one of those better.
Mastodon links in name or bio now banned from Twitter for being “malware”
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2022
Mastodon for Android app is officially released
3 projects | /r/Mastodon | 18 Apr 2022

pinafore

Posts with mentions or reviews of pinafore. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.

Native Windows client
3 projects | /r/Mastodon | 25 Jan 2023

For Windows, Whalebird is your go-to since it's in the MS Store. Most of the stuff I've found online as suggestions for Windows are web apps like https://pinafore.social/ or https://elk.zone. Personally, I just use the advanced web view. I need the columns.
Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2023
Ask HN: Examples of Great PWAs
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2023

https://pinafore.social/
Resilient Web Design, a PWA book by Jeremy Keith:
Didn't get the email, now I'm stuck here
8 projects | /r/Mastodon | 18 Dec 2022

Pinafore - Alternative web client for Mastodon, focused on speed and simplicity.
Paul Graham is leaving Twitter
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2022

Which instance are you on? Mastodon is decentralized, there may be servers that are overloaded whereas other are fast. Like email.
I haven't noticed any big differences in speed, i use both Mastodon for iOS and Pinafore (https://pinafore.social/ ), a PWA. Just add it to your homescreen and it will behave like a native app (and sometime in 2023 Apple has said they will add push notifications to PWAs).
Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2022
Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2022

I continue to see people stumble at mastodon resource requirements when setting up their instance, but I fail to understand why everyone is going for a mastodon instance for their personal use.
I am running https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial on a micro instance, probably using 100M ram, with a 30M sqlite database.
True, I don't have all features. It is pure backend, but I can use https://pinafore.social/ as web client and https://f-droid.org/en/packages/su.xash.husky/ as Android app. It implements a good chunk of the Mastodon API. I also use it from Emacs with mastodon.el.
Took me 35 minutes to setup. It runs as a single binary from systemd. Most of the jail features enabled. Not even a system user (DynamicUser).
Mastodon != Fediverse.