@supremus I am using my micro.blog account and app to connect with people on Mastodon. It feels seamless. Don’t want to have one more app and website to use.
@supremus so my problem with Ivory is that Tapbots have been receiving requests to do an app for an open platform for years, at least 5. But they’ve only done it now that Twitter’s killed their business. So it has nothing to do with supporting Mastodon, or the open web. It’s just bout making cash.
@supremus @pratik I’m on the trial and I’ll probably get it for a year too. I like that it is easier to find people. Of course, I’ll also pay for instance upkeep as well.
@supremus ah absolutely, it is a business, no doubt. I’d have a few hundred words to write about all this. All I’m saying is that they shouldn’t be seen as taking up the flag of the open web with the launch of this new app. They only switched from Twitter when they were literally booted.
@supremus Go to “discover” page on micro.blog, click on the magnifying glass and type the mastodon address such as “@supremus@mastodon.world” . It will bring up that user with an option to follow. Once followed, their mastodon toots will appear in your micro.blog timeline and you can reply from MB. Can’t believe that “I” am explaining this to a techie. :)
@crossingthethreshold I paid without hesitation, been a Tweetbot user since the early days. It’s nice get a familiar UI for Mastodon.
@supremus Mona! It’s a one time-purchase. If you have the Spring app for twitter it’s going to be discounted to $9 I think which will be unlimited on iPad, iPhone and Mac. If you don’t have Spring it’s you can purchase it for $10 for one platform or, I think, $17 for all three. And honestly, having used Spring on Twitter and Mona for the past month, I think it’s the better app anyway. Ivory is really nice but Mona is it’s equal in visual design with more features.
I’d been reading complaints for months about Tweetbot’s lack of updates and find it kinda funny that people seem to have forgotten that… or forgiven it.
@fabio I agree. would have been nice to seem them proactively move to support Mastodon from what I’d read various places includenig app store reviews, they’d not been issuing regular updates for Tweetbot for the past year and a lot of folks were complaining that for a subscription app it didn’t get enough attention.
@Denny What’s Mona? I couldn’t find any iOS app of that name (that made sense in regard to Mastodon). Do you have a link, or did I misunderstand you?
@holgerfrohloff It’s a Mastodon app made by the maker of Spring, which was a Twitter client app. I should have maybe mentioned that it’s currently in TestFlight so you won’t find it on the App Store just yet. mastodon.social/@MonaApp
@holgerfrohloff Hearing about all of these different clients, not sure which one I want on iOS right now. I’m using Metatext for the time being.
@cambridgeport90 Since I am a Micro.blog user — not Mastodon — I do not have free choice, yet. On iOS I am using Gluon by @vincent and on Mac I use the official Micro.blog app.