Yeah, the approach that apps like Ivory and Mammoth use is maybe nicer. All 5 tabs are useful, and some of them let you tap and hold to customize what shows. Source: about 1 year ago

> 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 / 6 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 / 7 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 / 12 months ago