 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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  @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.
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@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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Our iOS app has entered Top 200 free Social Networking apps in Finland and Czech Republic. Hopefully just the beginning!
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@Gargron looking forward to more updates. #technology #heardle #wordpress  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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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.
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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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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. 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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 @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." @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. 😉
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@Gargron Might be worth noting than compiling C++ extensions for Ruby 3.0.x fails on musl-based systems: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17788 (For now I maintain a simple patch to backport the fix: https://github.com/Wonderfall/docker-mastodon/blob/master/ruby-hotfix.patch) Thanks for the work. :)
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We're at 664 ratings across all countries. Would be nice to get that into 5 digits too... With the amount of care, effort and just plain old money put into the iOS app I'm very emotionally invested in its success. I've been using it daily since the first build and I'm personally convinced it's the best Mastodon app that's out there, at least for how I use Mastodon.
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 @Gargron it definitely the best, only thing lacking IMHO is a fed timeline. Since this is a SwiftUI, any plans to bring it to mac as well? All the others apps, they are electron, and then there is Mastonaut, but you can’t post toots longer than 500 even if your server allows for more. So... would the #DigitalMarketsAct basically make WhatsApp flip the XMPP federation switch back on..?
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@gargron AFAIK WhatsApp does not use standard XMPP or OMEMO so it will not work out of the box with open federation XMPP. @Gargron Something like that :) But it'll take time: first the DMA needs to be voted (2022), then enter into force (2023), then the Commission needs to designate the gatekeepers (2023), and then they have four years before the full #interoperability obligation incl group chats applies (2027). Thank you big tech industry lobbying. |
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@Gargron aaaaand ok, we got it. It make sense.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/221#issuecomment-890335633
Speaking ‘bout other features: would it be possible in the future to have link previews like on Metatext or Toot App? 🖖🏻♥️
@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?
@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...