mobilizon VS mastodon-ios-apps

David Revoy's involvement in FOSS is almost a blessing. He has drawn this comic, Pepper and Carrot, using free software like Krita. But that's only the surface level of his contribution to FOSS.

He has pioneered a collaborative approach to comic translation in an industry where most publishers respond to volunteer translators with legal threats. (See [1] for the dominant sentiment among conventional comic publishers.)

Dozens of FOSS projects owe wonderful illustrations and mascots to David Revoy, including all of the initiatives by Framasoft (a French association focusing on software freedom). They are characters for communities to rally around, and can make these charitable initiatives and software projects feel more approachable to non-technical people. The open source app Mobilizon has cute cartoon foxes for instance[2], which you can even have as your online profile picture[3]!

Add to that a myriad of educational videos and blog posts about both art in general and doing art with open source software and you can perhaps see how passionate David Revoy is. Well, so concludes my little accolade to him on HN! I wish him the best of luck with his new comic.

[1]: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2022/03/199_314538....

[2]: https://joinmobilizon.org/

[3]: https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2020_mobilizon-gene...

It seems like Mobilizon is trying to be only events (and then connect to other stuff with ActivityPub), and Bonpfire is more a social network + events (which is what you are looking for?). I have no idea how mature they are/where they have apps, though.

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.