hachyderm.io is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Hachyderm is a safe space, LGBTQIA+ and BLM, primarily comprised of tech industry professionals world wide. Note that many non-user account types have restrictions - please see our About page.

Administered by:

Server stats:

9.5K
active users

Jan <3

My new favourite open source mastodon client is phanpy.social by @cheeaun.
It is a web app, but can be added to your Home Screen like any other app (even on iPhone).

The attention to detail and minimalist, yet playful, UI is just out of this world. Whenever I use my other client, I wish for their features.

My absolute favourite feature is using different colours to highlight replies, private messages, boosts and hashtags.

phanpy.socialPhanpyMinimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

@janvhs @cheeaun Just playing with it now after reading your post and yes, it’s so beautifully crafted. I’m actually in awe of the fact that it’s not native. And great ethics too (free/open + no data collection).

💕

@aral @cheeaun surprisingly, I don’t mind it not being native that much. Icecubes has great haptic feedback and starting phanpy takes a bit, but with notifications working, it is something that doesn’t matter to me ^^

@janvhs @cheeaun Oh, indeed; I was just noting how smooth it was.

@janvhs @aral @cheeaun Icecubes isn't the best comparison, though - even though it's native. Through no fault of the developer, SwiftUI doesn't handle the feed of post very well - so Icecubes isn't very smooth. The best showcase would be Ivory, which has _excellent_ feel. Mona and Mammoth has _good_ feel. 🙂

(Still, I love Phanpy and recommend it all the time! This was just a comment on "native". ☺️)

@janvhs @cheeaun I really struggle to get it working via keyboard controls (stock Mastodon Web UI is deficient in similar ways), and the weird way boosts are horizontal in a vertical stream just doesn't click with me.

@oliof @janvhs @cheeaun you can turn the carousel off if you prefer!

@janvhs @cheeaun Elk.zone is similar, and is my primary Mastodon client at this point, but phanpy looks super nice

@sanityinc @janvhs @cheeaun I second Elk. I've been using it since its beginning. It's about as native an experience as I've ever had without it being so.

@sanityinc @cheeaun @elk is great, too! Fun fact is that it was started by some of the Vue.js / Nuxt / Uno.js people, so it might be a nice showcase project for using their framework.

@janvhs @cheeaun not sold on the retoots carousel, but I love the way toots are marked as included due to followed hashtags!

@janvhs @cheeaun phanpy.social is my fav web client for mastodon :blobmeltsoblove: