@darius Really? That info about web notifications I hope doesn't fall into the wrong hands... Spammers will have a field day with the phones of anyone visiting their website. But I imagine it's a feature that needs to be enabled by the user. Will the site have to remain open for notifications to work?

I just don't like the layout of the site much, and I'm blind and using a screen reader which works very well with the app.

@darius Nice! Some blind developers even have built an app for PC/Mac. It started out with Twitter but now also has Telegram, Mastodon, and other stuff. It's called TweeseCake if you wanna look. https://tweesecake.app/

@lawremipsum @erosdiscordia @darius I know I'm late, but when I check the “federated” timeline on my app I see posts from users of this server along with everybody else in that timeline. My instance has Hometown not Mastodon.
The feature is changeable, I can set my posts to “unlisted” if I want to. But I think users show up in the federated timeline by default unless they modify the default posting setting on their preferences in the web interface.
By the way this instance also has a “local” timeline with just users on this particular instance, but I think they all do.

I'm sending this reply using the “unlisted” setting.

@darius @lawremipsum @erosdiscordia Wonder if that works with 3rd party apps too or just the web interface. I rarely use the website to access Mastodon.

@Gargron Nice, but just wondering why Mastodon.Social accounts were closed so no more new ones? I keep seeing people with that domain, but just the lucky few who did it before Mastodon's explosive popularity. I guess all the new users were bogging down your instance?

@darius MetaText. The official app has some VoiceOver bugs. VoiceOver is the screen reader for iOS.