Ivory for Mastodon VS Pinafore

> indie-dev-that-does-not-want-to-monetize-friendly Noting is "I need to spend a significunt chunk of my time for no renumeration"-friendly. And yet there are numerous free, or pay-less-than-a-cup-of-coffee clients for many things and services, whether those are open or closed, free or paid (Ivory for Mastodon https://tapbots.com/ivory/ and Wikipedia's app come to mind). Thanks for the tip for Siskin and Monal!... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

You might be interested to know the Tweetbot people made an app for Mastodon: https://tapbots.com/ivory/ https://tapbots.social/@ivory. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

For example, the twitter "equivalent" on the fediverse -- mastodon -- recently got the developer of what was widely considered the best twitter client pivoting their work after Twitter's API changes that spez is emulating (see: Ivory). Source: 11 months ago

For iOS, there's Ivory but it's unfortunately not free. Ivory is the one I'm using and it's pretty good. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

I've been very happy with Ivory: https://tapbots.com/ivory/ Every few months I kick a couple bucks to my homeserver (which is currently running a pretty large surplus or I'd do more) and that's the end of it. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

For Windows, Whalebird is your go-to since it's in the MS Store. Most of the stuff I've found online as suggestions for Windows are web apps like https://pinafore.social/ or https://elk.zone. Personally, I just use the advanced web view. I need the columns. Source: over 1 year ago

Which instance are you on? Mastodon is decentralized, there may be servers that are overloaded whereas other are fast. Like email. I haven't noticed any big differences in speed, I use both Mastodon for iOS and Pinafore (https://pinafore.social/ ), a PWA. Just add it to your homescreen and it will behave like a native app (and sometime in 2023 Apple has said they will add push notifications to PWAs). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I continue to see people stumble at mastodon resource requirements when setting up their instance, but I fail to understand why everyone is going for a mastodon instance for their personal use. I am running https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial on a micro instance, probably using 100M ram, with a 30M sqlite database. True, I don't have all features. It is pure backend, but I can use... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I use https://pinafore.social on windows fine. Source: over 1 year ago

There are web frontends available where you can sign into your instance, just like you so with a mobile app. For example https://pinafore.social/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago