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Eugen Rochko

Guess what! Mastodon’s official #Android app was finally approved and is now on the Play Store.

play.google.com/store/apps/det

F-Droid submission still being processed.

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Justice

@Gargron I am using it right now. I am glad it has been put on the Playstore!

Ksully

@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

Eugen Rochko

Very aware that the explore tab needs a limit of one post per author, that will come 💀

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RevolutionaryPineapple

@Gargron This would be a good idea! Or some sort of grouping system would be awesome too.

noble :arch: :neovim:

@Gargron Thank you for your tireless work, my friend.

testaku

@Gargron the apps is really good. I'll give it 4.8/5 stars since it does not have explore or federated timeline. Working great on potato phone. ❤️❤️

Version 1.0

Eugen Rochko

Mastodon for iOS is in the Top 100 free Social Networking apps in Germany, Spain, and Greece!!

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One Typed Page Anime Journal

@Gargron I hope that it’ll work alright…
btw glad to use the latest IOS version of the official Mastodon app, very nice interface!

Eugen Rochko

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!)

Screenshot of Mastodon's new users graph from the admin dashboard. It shows the number of new users for the last 30 days, which is 12,187 (+9% compared to 30 days before that). Below that is a blue graph that represents daily sign-ups, with today's line going way up
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Deadly Headshot

@Gargron I'd imagine that you're even more stressed with moderating the massive new influx. Hope you find some time to relax. :BigBlobhajHug:

Jigme Datse

@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...

Eugen Rochko

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.

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Leonie :pb:​ :22breadinv: :vf:

@Gargron im facing the same issue. grabbed my phone and gave some blocklist maintainers a call, only half of the entries at virustotal went away. now i don't bother with it anymore and assume that everyone still lives in a free internet.

fsb

@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.

:debian: 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊 :opensuse:

@Gargron

It reminds me how noc.social is blacklisted everywhere too...

Eugen Rochko

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.

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Andrea Margiovanni

@Gargron aaaaand ok, we got it. It make sense.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon-i

Speaking ‘bout other features: would it be possible in the future to have link previews like on Metatext or Toot App? 🖖🏻♥️

Alessio :linux:

@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?

大鹅委员会唯一指定账号 :goose_walk:

@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?

@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...

Eugen Rochko

Intending to submit our Android app to the Play Store for review today 🤞

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strabon

@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

Eugen Rochko

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.

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西卡卡 :vip7: :verified_neko:

@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?

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Eugen Rochko

Our iOS app has entered Top 200 free Social Networking apps in Finland and Czech Republic. Hopefully just the beginning!

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44cea44

@Gargron keep fixing things that need fixing. I really like it here. After Musk, expect more people to register on your app. 🥰

Eugen Rochko

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.

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Eugen Rochko

We're also bringing back e-mail notifications for mentions and follows being on by default, but now we won't send an e-mail if you already have an app that gets push notifications or you're connected to the web app.

44cea44

@Gargron can I do volunteer work for Mastodon? I speak two languages. :trans_heart:

MOVED TO CYBRE.SPACE

@Gargron Eugen could you add the blobcathug emote to .social please

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Kiwiguy

@Gargron I joined yesterday too. The Elon news was really just the straw. It’s hard to know if I’ll keep using Mastodon, but it’s worth trying to get over the learning curve of walled garden to whatever the hell a fediverse is.

eobet

@Gargron how is the projected economics of scale? Can the current donations handle a large influx of video and photo posting users? Thinking about storage and bandwidth costs if things get even more popular…

Doncho Gunch≡𝕧

@Gargron unfortunately that won't bring the best kine of users here …

Eugen Rochko

The good news is that our Android app development is moving really fast and we’re only missing the settings screen now. I think it’s reasonable to expect the app to launch within the month.

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MeKobi

@Gargron If I had know there is no Android app, not sure if I would have joined. But hey, hurry up! 🙂

Eugen Rochko

We’re going to try to hurry and release the Android app as soon as possible. And yes, we’ll try to publish it on @fdroidorg as well.

mint

@Gargron been using the beta for a few days. it's good! i'm sure this will make introducing mastodon to new users really easy.

Eugen Rochko

Even two years on, I still have no idea which direction #Bluesky is intending to go. Though it seems like if they wanted to adopt an existing protocol, they would've already done so.

I'll only say that the challenges of building a decentralized social network are anywhere but the actual protocol. Mastodon started on one protocol, then switched to another. Decisions that matter are in product design. Marketing.

If they propose a new protocol, what would make it worth resetting all that to zero?

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Malcolm Bastien

@Gargron I'd like to see less "designing the perfect system for one day maybe" and more adoption of Matrix and Mastodon as "the best options available today"

People will agree and say "Things should be distributed" on their Twitter account or on Discord but they won't say "...but right now, today, you can go and create an account on Mastodon."

Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦

@Gargron the aim of BlueSky seems to be to create a decentralized, federated social network that is controlled and monetized by a single entity.

In other words, to square a circle.

So this is going exactly as well as could be expected. 😉

clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
Nobody with billions of USD in cash and 200 million active users to leverage is starting from scratch.

Product design and marketing are trivial compared to figuring out what BlueSky is supposed to be good for.

I think the endgame for Twitter is to be able to have 200 million monetizable active users and at the same time be able to say that if you talk to some who advocates genocide they can say it's not their fault because it's decentralized and they're a common carrier.
Nobody with billions of USD in cash and 200 million active users to leverage is starting from scratch.

Product design and marketing are trivial compared to figuring out what BlueSky is supposed to be good for.
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