First impressions, #mastodon seems like cryptocurrency: made by computer scientists to be clever rather than usable. #twittermigration
@diyspaceprojects it is definitely something with a learning curve! I am enjoying the high character limit so far. What do you think is the thing keeping you from loving it?
@derickflorian I'm sure some of it will just take a while to get used to, but onboarding on the Android app wasn't great. The first step was to pick a server, without really knowing what that meant. It also seems to launch a browser a lot. How do I view the community feed on another server in the app? If I select someone's handle, it opens the browser. If I choose to follow them, I have to scroll down and copy the link, then return to the app, paste it into the search, and then choose to follow again. Just a few things that feel like they could be smoother.
@diyspaceprojects @derickflorian
I never use the apps because the Mastodon website is already so mobile-friendly.
Plus Qoto has a few features that other instances don't have, and it isn't reflected in the apps as most of them go by the default Mastodon standards.
How do you view the community feed on another server... the app probably doesn't have it as that's not default Mastodon.
@derickflorian @diyspaceprojects
See image.
Just go to any post of someone from another instance and click the triple dots. You should see the option on the bottom.
It should be similar on the mobile web interface.
This is another Qoto-specific feature.
@trinsec @diyspaceprojects that is a nice feature and it works great. I’m sending this post from the web and I think I’m going to switch over to this primarily. 😀
@derickflorian @diyspaceprojects Welcome to the Fediverse. ;)
@trinsec @diyspaceprojects That’s a good point. I will give the website a try. I am a creature of habit so I just downloaded an app like I do for everything else!
How do you view a different community server on the web? I have the “federated timeline” on the app and I also see that on the server but is there a way to look at a specific communities timeline?
That said the site experience is better than I thought on a mobile device so I will give it a go! It would be nice to get more of the customized #qoto features.
By the way thanks for the tips and the detailed explanation!