matt, to mastodon
@matt@oslo.town avatar

Have there been any exciting updates to the range of Mastodon apps lately? 🤔

I feel like a lot of app development - on iOS especially - has either slowed or halted, but happy to be proven wrong. 😅

I’m really looking forward to @ivory introducing the ability to ‘Browse other instances’. 👽

iriepixel, to random
@iriepixel@mastodon.social avatar

@ivory hi & - is there any update on tag groups functionality?

andrew, to mastodon
@andrew@esq.social avatar

Also grateful for projects like #Ivory ( @ivory) that are smoothing the transition from Twitter/X for folks that are amenable but want a familiar experience.

I have no doubt we owe a lot of users on #Mastodon and the #fediverse more generally to projects that set out, and succeeded, in paving the road ahead of the crowds to make the day-to-day as seamless as possible. https://esq.social/@andrew/112515516679521573

mattwilcox, (edited ) to random
@mattwilcox@mstdn.social avatar

I am curious if the "announcment" feature Mastodon admins have access to is actually useful.

I suspect many people never see them. I think I've only ever seen it displayed in the "official" mastodon web UI. And never in any of the (many) apps I use.

Feel free to boost for reach.

qurlyjoe,
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social avatar

@mattwilcox @stux
I rarely use the web ui, and use @Ivory on my phone and iPad. I’m not aware of any way to see the announcements in #Ivory.

stefan, to fediverse
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

I know some fediverse apps use various text/image detection technologies, so I was curious if this encourages the use of alt text.

The main thing I learned: Out of nearly 30,000 fediverse posts I looked at, almost 80% did not have information about the client app.

That was a bit surprising. And it makes doing this sort of analysis difficult.

#AltText #fediverse #data #dataviz

stefan,
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

Hmm, I thought #ivory was one of the apps that uses AI to generate alt text from images, but I can't seem to be able to find anything about this.

Can someone who uses it confirm?

johnjolley,
@johnjolley@mas.to avatar

@stefan The cost of #ivory is a major obstacle for me, and I imagine for many other Mastodon users as well. I find the prospect of having to pay for a “subscription” to a Mastodon client, when there are apps available that only have to be paid for once, upon purchasing (such as #Toot!), incredibly distasteful - and I imagine a lot of other users without much expendable income do as well

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