As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users

I really wish more online personalities would move to Mastodon, right now it's hard to justify when most of what I use Twitter for is to follow different online creators and such. And just none of them are moving over yet. It looks like Bluesky is where a lot of them are looking. It's also decentralized, but honestly I'm not a big fan of jumping on another Jack Dorsey project. I don't like ActivityPub as a tech myself and would be more interested in a holepunch kind of approach myself, but honestly it's the most mature decentralized tech there is right now and it seems like the world is moving that way. Just wish the world would move quicker!

Also, remember there are a bunch of nice 3rd party options for Android, like: Tusky (personal favorite), Fedilab, Megalodon, & Tooot

I tried to use mastodon but it never stuck for me. Mostly because of the lack of communities that I'm part of on twitter. Ever since musk's takeover, I've been using twitter less and less.

First time I gave Mastadon a shot now. It's nice.

Special thanks to Kbin to introduce me into decentralized social media.

Maybe I should give Mastodon another try.. I couldn't really find anyone to follow.

Despite mastadon being more active, it seems less lively. I guess it's because I preferred Reddit over Twitter in the first place.

I'm using Tusky for now. It has more customization options than the official app. One thing I don't like about the official app is that everything looks gigantic.

Mastodon seems to become yet another rage cage like twitter, first thing I saw when I opened it yesterday was people bitching about politics, that's a BIG nope for me

The problem with mastodon is everyone is on mastodon.social

How good is Mastodon in general to follow football news? Transfer rumours and all?

I did open a Mastodon account. But don't use it much 😶

The update is really great. Enjoying it a lot.

Mastodon app is great for people coming from Twitter but I love my Megalodon <3

Man there's literally only one thing stopping me from using mastodon and that's likes.

I know marketing, and shit, and likes sometimes skew things, but without likes any toot is given the same weight, no matter if it's a good or bad toot. There's no way for me to see through the chaos that emerges from this.

I know there are reasons not to do this, but I damn well know I'm not the only one, and I'm sure it would make it more appealing for a lot of ppl unfamiliar with mastodon. You could even make it optional so ppl can turn it off and there would be no harm done.

I don't think I'll ever make a Mastodon account, but I do like the rss feature so had been relying on that to get updates on certain projects. Now just need some Twitter accounts that haven't moved over to do the same. Some have websites, but don't even update it and relied solely on twitter to push update.

Twitter is mainly for self promotion than for users, so this seems pretty disruptive for them than it is for people like me.

I tried a lot, but Toot! is the best of the bunch.

I noticed it looked slightly different, but I haven't noticed much difference

I use it. So far I like it.

I'll have to give it another try - Megalodon is my current favourite

I couldn't find the button to follow hashtags on the official app, but it's there on Moshidon.

@AlmightySnoo NGL it doesn't seem to have a #federated timeline still

Nothing can beat Fedilab. Trunks is a close second

Maybe I should give it another look. I was frustrated that I couldn't view federated content, so I switched to a webapp.