Translations are here:

https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon-for-ios

Coming from Russian (you do speak it too, right?) it's always interesting to see what the convention is in different languages. I'm used to UIs addressing me formally (Вы == Sie) because everyone's been doing that since forever. But then in Spanish it's "tu", everywhere. German translation in Smithereen is also using "du".

@Gargron I am more for "du"

@Gargron I think Masto is going for playful and informal enough to warrant "du".

@Gargron What happened to Rintranke?

@Gargron

Definitly "du"!

@Gargron Maybe add a new language choice - "German (formal)" for those that don't like to get too close to their apps :)

@Gargron use Du, it is fine I am an old fart and prefer it to Sie in apps and most online correspondence.
Sie is slowly going from online use and even causal conversations.
So let's duzen.

@Gargron I’m interested too about that.
On a personal project, I have translated with Sie, but I’m not a German native speaker, so I may have been mistaken 😅

@Gargron du.

@Gargron As far as I can tell, direct speech is usually avoided in apps in German, instead opting for a more indirect infinitive form when possible (although the past years have shown an increase of "du" in ads and apps alike).

@Gargron 'sie' is a so called person of respect, an elder one for instance. 'du' is called a well known person or college.