What's it all about, Alfie?

With the Early Release of Ivory by Tapbots, I think I've found the clear winner for a Mastodon client. This is very good - and it's got a lot more work that they want to do on it... so it's only going to get better.

Right now, it's got everything I used on Twitter, plus other nice features that are part of Mastodon natively. All in all, it's actually a nice upgrade.

I would still like to see the local town alerts (weather, service interruptions, etc.) come to Mastodon, but even if they don't, it's far better than whatever Twitter is turning into.

With the recent demise of the Twitter API for third-party clients, it was time to move to Mastodon, all I really needed was a little push from a friend, and then off we went. I will say, the native client isn't bad, and Tapbots is creating Ivory, which sounds promising, but I'm pretty pleased with Ice Cubes - an Open Source Mastodon client using SwiftUI, available on the App Store. It's not bad at all on iPad, and on iOS it's really very nice.

I still will be very interested in seeing what Ivory looks like - as I really want one client that syncs on all my devices - as Twitterrific did, and I know the Tapbots guys will make that happen. But we'll see... who knows, given that it's SwiftUI, it's possible to imagine that Ice Cubes will be on macOS too... Could be interesting.

In any case, it was the people... the community, that made Twitter nice, and they're moving, and the place won't be worth a tenth of the purchase price in a few months.

This morning, Twitterrific for iOS had problems logging in, and at first, I thought it was the 2FA I had applied to my account after a friend's account was hacked. The token on my iPhone expired, and I needed to re-authenticate my account with the 2FA, and yet when I tried to do that... nothing.

It was an hour later that I was still trying to find out what it might be, when I saw the news that Twitter had simply revoted the access tokens for some of the third-party iOS clients - while leaving the macOS clients alone. For example, Twitterrific for macOS is fine. This wasn't a mistake - it was intentional, and that's a shame. They chose to do this, and it's their company, so OK... but I can't imagine this standing - or maybe it's the beginning of the end?

I guess I'll see what Mastodon is all about...