pinafore VS FediAct

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.

It's only part of what you want, but with the browser addon FediAct you can follow or like on other instances and clicking reply directs you back to your own.

I want to use https://github.com/Lartsch/FediAct on Mull browser (https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/)

It’s annoying but fortunately there’s a great Chrome/Firefox extension that automates this process: https://github.com/Lartsch/FediAct

I hope this will be made easier in the near future. In the meantime, you can use this browser extension: https://github.com/lartsch/FediAct#installation

There's an addon for Chrome and Firefox that helps with this issue.

If you find yourself copying URLs from foreign instances often, you might like a browser extension like FediFollow that dose this process automatically when you try to interact with a foreign post.