@Gargron I'm guessing once we get some more installs it will rise in the rankings. I used a direct link on my browser to find it - not ideal. It looks great though!
@Gargron I have found that the Mastodon app cannot be found by the play store app on the phone....you have to find it via the play website and tell it to install to your phone instead (or be logged into your Google account on a phone browser and install it from there. Not sure why...but am suspicious
There's an uptick of sign-ups on mastodon.social larger than on the day Musk bought 9.2% of Twitter's shares (that's the other peak). I suspect similar graphs across the entire Mastodon network (at least I hope so!)
@Gargron You work so hard. And honestly too many people give you a hard time for stuff that you're trying to fix that really isn't (at least shouldn't be) your problem. Take it easy...
You know how Spamhaus wrongfully added us to their spam blocklist because some malware retrieved a public profile on here? Like, made a normal HTTP request to a public page that happened to be on our domain? Well, I obviously contacted them and had us taken down from the list, but now Kaspersky seems to have taken that information and added us to their blocklist. I've contacted them as well but this is getting ridiculous.
@Gargron this happens because you are son of bitch. Insulting and blocking people's WHO FREEDOM OPINION THEY VIEW. you try block bgzashtita.es FOR MISINFORMATIN. AND LEAVE women pedophile and women VIOLENCE TOWARD ALL MEN.
@Gargron That may he for more political reasons in the case of Kaspersky. Limiting access to the fediverse by blocking major instances seems in-line with Russian internet policing of late.
Just for expectations management: Our Android app, like the iOS one, is oriented towards new users as well as people who primarily use Mastodon through their home feed. If you rely on local/federated timelines to use Mastodon, you won't find it useful.
@Gargron I'm very curious about this product decision, is that supported by some metrics or is it arbitrary? If the latter is true, what are the criteria that led you or anybody to decide so?
@Gargron I've tried the android app, and to be honest, I don't think it's good for new users on smaller instances. New users on small instances relies on local timeline, or even federated timeline if you speak a language with relatively lesser users, to catch toots they're interested in (not just those got boosted more times), especially when search on mastodon is delibrately weakened. I understand local or federated timeline is fuzzy and noisy on large instances like mastodon.social, but smaller instances would need this. Would you please at least allow users to open or close it?
@GargronI've tried the android app, and to be honest, I don't think it's good for new users on smaller instances. New users on small instances relies on local timeline, or even federated timeline if you speak a language with relatively lesser users, to catch toots they're interested in (not just those got boosted more times), especially when search on mastodon is delibrately weakened. I understand local or federated timeline is fuzzy and noisy on large instances like mastodon.social, but smaller...
@Gargron Fdroid is considered, thx :)) Using Librem Social & Tusky. Looking forward to try it. About "Push notification"; android with MicroG works well with this. Some apps are using their own notification code (Ex. Threema). Its an extra background ptocess, but Im personally ok with it. Good luck with all
Starting with Mastodon 3.5, we no longer try to auto-detect your posting language. It defaults to your interface language, unless overriden by setting it explicitly per-post in the API, or setting in Preferences -> Other.
@Gargron It seems that only the toots posted by people using the same Interface Language as you can show up in the Explore Tab. For example, if someone posted a Chinese toot using an English interface, only those who also use English interface can see that Chinese toot in the Explore Tab. It doesn't make much sense to me. Is it a bug or is it intentional?
The "sign-in token" authentication scheme, where you had to enter a code from an e-mail if logging in from a new IP address, created too many issues, so in 3.5.1 we're going back on it. Instead, you'll just get an e-mail about a new sign-in if it's from a new IP address.
@Gargron sehr nice! Gibt es eigentlich Pläne, die lokale und föderierte Timeline auch in der offiziellen iOS-App einzubinden? Aktuell hat man ja nur den „normalen“ Feed
@Gargron Guess we have to grease the wheels of big tech.
@Gargron I'm guessing once we get some more installs it will rise in the rankings. I used a direct link on my browser to find it - not ideal. It looks great though!
@Gargron probably google tries to slow down the spread of #mastodon on #google #playstore #android