mastodon-ios-apps VS pinafore

Mastodon has been in use in lieu of Twitter, most of the time I'd otherwise have seen a Twitter link on things I personally read, ever since the rate limiting thing.

I believe kbin integrates better with Mastodon (compared to Lemmy), so you might be able to create/use a Mastodon account with one of their many client options.

Jerboa is for lemmy, here’s some apps for mastodon

Mastodon is a protocol. There are plenty of alternative UIs https://joinmastodon.org/apps

Apps: https://joinmastodon.org/apps

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

> 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.

There's a whole list of them here: https://joinmastodon.org/apps

The most noteworthy Android ones are listed on https://joinmastodon.org/apps along with other platforms.

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.

https://pinafore.social/

Resilient Web Design, a PWA book by Jeremy Keith:

Pinafore - Alternative web client for Mastodon, focused on speed and simplicity.

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).

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.

i use https://pinafore.social on windows fine.