You don't need to use the official Mastodon apps, they're not the best way to use Mastodon. The official apps only arrived last year, and they were intended as "Fisher Price My First Mastodon" things with a restricted set of features.

Third party apps have been around longer than official ones, and include way more features. You can sign in with the same account on all apps.

:android: On Android try Tusky, Fedilab, Megalodon, Tooot

:apple_inc: On iPhone/iPad, try Toot!, Ice Cubes, Ivory, Mona

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Alyssa🏳️‍⚧️

@feditips thanks! I’m going to give these a try. I’ve been using Metatext and it’s definitely rough around the edges.

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Valas Hawkwinter

@feditips
So - I'm relatively new to the Fediverse.

A friend just posted (to facebook) about a recent twitter harassment campaign where someone was bullied off the internet, shut down his account, then everyone found our the accuser made up the allegations, harassed him, he said he was just a kid and didnt know any better, issued a half-hearted apology, and then opened a new account to start bragging about how he 'won'. I read the tweets, and it's a mess.

I haven't seen or heard about such awful harassment happening here. Is there anything more than a nicer community of people preventing such awful things from happening here?

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Jessi

@feditips thanks gonna try some of these today, I have been finding the initial app a little lacking

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Grejurn

@feditips Do any of these allow access to mod/admin tools? If not, I'm doing just fine with the official app for now.

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Andre Kuehne

@feditips The official mastodon app is perfectly fine though if you want something simple.

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Eugene

@feditips I will keep this in mind if I ever need to login to here with my phone (I do on my interneting on my laptop but you never know when it will like... fart out or something and I'll be without a computer for a few days).

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smashmaster0045

@feditips for web I've been having fun with elk.zone , works pretty nicely for my needs

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Ray McCarthy

@feditips
Or use your browser!
I only install apps for things I need that have no website version!

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Heidi 🇳🇱🇪🇺

@feditips I like Ivory very much with regularly updates.

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Abel

@feditips Metatext & Radiant is quite awesome too for iOS (ping @radiant ❤️)

And please try Elk 🦌 on your desktop: elk.zone or elk.h4.io ☺️
(@elk 🫶)

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Raff 2.0

using Megalodon here.

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Gwyntaglaw

@feditips strong vote for Ivory from me. It changed the way I saw and used Mastodon. Easy choice for those who used to use Tweetbot.

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