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Mastodon being 65% was a surprise to me for sure. What’s the best mastodon app?
Also how do I use it efficiently for tech related news and info? I never got into twitter.
Edit: I should probably specify for Android
Moshidon is really good for android. I especially like that you can have custom timelines for basically anything
Ooh, that sounds like a great feature.
Mammoth, Ice Cubes, Ivory all good on iOS
My vote is ice cubes for ios. Ivory was severely lacking in features despite it being paid.
I like Tusky on Android.
What’s the best mastodon app?
Moshidon 100%
Also how do I use it efficiently for tech related news and info?
You don’t, you use RSS.
You can look in the trending news section. One of many baffling design decisions of Mastodon is hiding all the trending posts, hashtags and news under the search function.
On Mac/iOS, Ivory is pretty dope: https://tapbots.com/ivory/
If you like PWA phanpy is nice on mobile or destktop
I use FediLab from FDroid
Does it include users from Threads?
Still, monthly active users are goin down.
Actually, users & active users went up last month.
You are right. In the graph there is a rise, but inside “Total MAU” pill it says “-47,901 since last month”.
Interesting, the other numbers all match the graphs, but that one is wrong.
I would report it to them but it seems like you need a github account to do that.
You can send a message to @dansup@pixelfed.social, creator of Pixelfed and FediDB.
Thanks!
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I don’t know why the numbers were trending down the past few months:
Maybe they were weeding out bots?
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- Takes a bit to get set up with something passable. The default Lemmy UI is kinda shit and you have to figure out which apps to use to make it work for you. It can feel a little unpolished initially.
- Niche communities just aren’t there yet. There is a lot of effort in creating them, but low engagement. It also doesn’t help that federation can mean communities on one topic are divided.
- Content can get a bit stale. I feel I see fresh content for about an hour a day and then have to wait another day before the next batch. When I browse throughout the day I start to notice the same stories popping in my feed over and over. Sometimes this happens for days on ended with one story just kinda coming back.
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Niche is like “heatpumps” or “succulents” or just any random topic that you want to learn more about.
For me, Reddit was always invaluable for getting initial information on anything I needed to check out for the first time.
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I think people don’t like having to figure out what federation means and run away without realizing that they didn’t need to know what it means to participate.
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My favourite type of posts is the ones by people signed up in one instance, posting in a community hosted by another instance about how they don’t understand how they are supposed to make use of federation. And then often still not getting it when people from all over the web tell them that they already are.
It makes sense though - federation is sold as a feature for users, but when done right the users should hardly notice it at all. So of course people end up a bit confused.
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fediverse observer shows no growth (actually it shows a continual decline), could it be threads?
