In-app purchases. Get fukt.
I use a Lemmy app with IAP (Sync)
It’s great. I literally moved to Lemmy because of Sync.
I found Jerboa on the Fdroid store. It’s amazing looks just like Now for Reddit.
If you don’t like the yearly/monthly subscription, you can grab the source code and compile the app yourself. Just patch out this line with a
return true. You could also remove the check here and get access to a few settings that way.To run your own software on iOS you may need to work around Apple’s fuckery (reinstalling the app every week) but I think there are automated tools that’ll help with that.
Unfortunately you can’t publish your app to the app store (the app is licensed as AGPL and Apple’s app store procedures make it incompatible with most GPL-like licenses, and only the original copyright author had the legal right to relicense the code to allow Apple’s proprietary additions) but perhaps AltStore will accept your fork.
It’s AGPL. Fine with me but: Since when is AGPL code allowed on the Apple app store?
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I’ve read CONTRIBUTING.md and unless I’ve missed a line by accident, there is no CLA for contributions, so with the first non-trivial 3rs party contribution the entire code base is AGPL with no way to relicense unless it’s negotiated with said contributor.
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Why wouldn’t you like developers to make a living? Do you expect to get a high quality app for free? Grow up.
You want to be marketed to on your phone that you paid for and continue to pay for, cool. I don’t give a fuck. Why you think others should want that is fucking bizarre. I’ll continue to use software that doesn’t invade my privacy and shill bullshit.
Also, work on your fucking reading comprehension, because at no point did I insinuate I wouldn’t pay for software. Christ on a shitstick.
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Apple only so Fuck’em.
They said they are open sourcing their app so hope ahead
And Swift code talking to iOS APIs is magically working on Android? If the app wasn’t developed as cross platform from the start, it won’t be at a later stage. And if it works using cross platform technologies, not publishing it on Android is just stupid. After all, that’s where 70% of all users are.
So someone needs to rewrite the whole application using a appropirate language, Are you saying it would be a tedious work?
There’s a lot of that I think with mastodon apps.
I suspect it’s devs who want to get paid at some point, which on one hand is fair but also raises interesting concerns about how open/FOSS software dev needs to work with respect to money.
Beyond that, there was some speculation I saw that the iOS dev space is just more interested in designing social media apps. No idea how true that is.
What kind of mentality is this? Don’t we all want the Fediverse to grow and succeed? Don’t you want more apps for the Fediverse to spur adoption? And what is so wrong with it being exclusive to iOS? What do you say about Android exclusive apps then? Fuck them too? Aight listen, I’m a GrapheneOS user. I have been on Android exclusively for the last decades and I’m so sick of this attitude. You Android elitists are so utterly anhedonic. You tire me out. Grow the f up up and let people enjoy what they want geez.
The other great thing about the Fediverse is that people have options, and they can explore those options without affecting you
If someone wants to use Mastodon on an Apple device, then great. If someone wants an algorithm when viewing content, then great.
We aren’t locked into one thing anymore
Welcome to the Android good and Apple bad argument.
Don’t we all want the Fediverse to grow and succeed?
Most of us come to the Fedi because we want choices. Something Apple is not fond of.
What do you say about Android exclusive apps then?
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Grow the f up up and let people enjoy what they want geez.
Sorry iOS users can only enjoy whatever Apple says they can.
Apple and Apple users have also ruined Android. I’m done pretending to be okay with people financially supporting such a fucking horrific and influential company.
The EU is (finally) coming for Apple‘s ass. So Sideloading might finally become a thing on iOS.
Until then we have Signulous to sign our apps for Sideloading. There are also other options but those require a PC nearby so up to three apps can be signed for 7 days at a time.
Also tell me how Apple and Apple users have ruined Android. I‘ve been using Android phones since Android 2.1 and switched to an iPhone recently solely because my company gifted me an iPhone 14 Pro Max. And through all those years i didn‘t notice Apple or Apple users ruining Android.
Apple and Apple users have also ruined Android. I’m done pretending to be okay with people financially supporting such a fucking horrific and influential company.
You do know android is from google right? I know you do, but it’s makes you missing your own point entirely.
The whole article exists in Apple-land. Like a tacky stereotype of Apple users, the author never acknowledges it, treating everything Apple as the “default.”
I don’t have time for articles that consider the 3.5 billion android users to be “outliers.” C’mon, it’s 2023.
I for one value the minor barrier to entry. Mastodon quality degraded greatly with Twitter migrants. Just take a look at bluesky or threads - the content quality is not even close to that of Mastodon despite being projects in similar market position.
I know it sounds mean and there has to be a “better way” but a bit of friction goes a long way. If you’re too dumb to figure out Mastodon you’re too dumb for the internet - there I said it.
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Yes, the old Internet was absolutely full of good-natured, kind, helpful people.
It wasn’t until my boomer grandchildren got hold of Facebook that I got tricked into rm -rf, and called dirty words for believing a stranger
… Luckily I use Windows so it didn’t hurt me.
Now I use Hurd, btw
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I agree. It looks me time to know how mastodon works. But, it’s how it maintain the quality. You can’t have quality and quantity in a social media.
There can be nice people who are bad at tech, just like there’s racist technologists
Just because a group of nice well meaning Lemmy users is willing to suffer the pain of a poorly built app doesn’t mean they should /have/ to suffer through it
It’s sometimes nice to make nice things. Don’t be too much of an HOA, they’re new, it’s not the end of the world.
Just because I’m not afraid of biking with cars, doesn’t mean I don’t recognize that American biking infrastructure is hostile. We could do more to make biking safer and easier. They’ll struggle but they’ll get the hang of it.
So too, with making nice apps to free the lay people from their digital walled gardens.
Mastodon nowawdays is absurdly easy to sign up for, too. The official app (the way most newbies will find it) defaults to mastodon.social, and users never have to deal with anything involving Federation. From the user’s perspective the “Mastodon” app is identical to the official Twitter or Reddit app etc.
It absolutely boggles my mind how there are still real live technology journalists that claim it’s “too confusing”. Like yes “instances” and Federation is def weird, but not knowing how the technical backend stuff works doesn’t detract from the experience in the slightest.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The official Mastodon app is fine, but there’s also Ivory, Mona, Fedilab, Ice Cubes, Elk, Mastoot, and many others.
This openness is part of the whole appeal of the ActivityPub-powered social networking ecosystem, and it has already led to some solid new ideas.
Now, with the launch of Mammoth 2 for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, the app is going even deeper into curation and personalization: it’s launching a series of “Smart Lists” filled with good posts, a set of suggested people and accounts to follow, and more.
Most lists are filled with websites and well-known posters, so they’re more like a starting point than a long-term solution.
The default process has improved over time, but it’s still a lot of work to pick a server, sign up, find people, and get your timeline tuned just the way you like.
In general, he says he sees the app as a way to explore the entire fediverse, whether it’s on Mastodon or Pixelfed or anywhere else.
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Will check out alternatives, but pretty happy with Ivory.
Ate the stories of the lead developer being not so cool, true? Nice promises up front that turn to shit on behalf of pleasing investors?
So, algorithms. Pass.
One of the reasons I don’t use the other medias.
Some people want some sort of suggestion system. I figure as long as it’s an opt-in choice, why not? Gives people what they want and makes the ecosystem more enticing. And at least it’s an algorithm that’s transparent rather than one controlled by a large corporation.
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You dislike Apple? Shocking.
