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By request, I've done a brief review/overview of the excellent third party Mastodon app @Tusky for Android:

➡️ fedi.tips/tusky-for-android/

It has lots of extra features such as draft posts, post scheduling, custom timelines etc.

Hopefully this overview is accurate, do let me know if you spot mistakes.

Overall, it's a really solid app packed with features and an easy to use interface, anyone with an Android device should try it. Recommended 👍

fedi.tips Tusky for Android | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

@feditips @Tusky

Something I really miss in the online version is the ability to mute hashtags as easily as I can now follow them. It would just take another icon to click on at the top when I have clicked on and gotten a hashtag list.
Does Tusky do that?

@MaryPot @feditips @Tusky yes, it does. Search for the hashtag, select it and here you go. By clicking on the x you can "defollow".

@jhamre @feditips @Tusky

Often, it is hashtags like caturday that I am seeing so much of, I want to ignore them everywhere.

The function you showed me here is for unfollowing something I am following. That works on the web too.

What I would like is an ignore icon next to the follow icon, so I don't have to copy the hashtag and open my lists to add it to my ignore list.

Thanks, though! 🙂

@MaryPot @jhamre @feditips

1. Click the hashtag
2. Click the "mute" icon at the top right of the screen

That creates a filter that mutes that hashtag. You can adjust it further in Account preferences > Filters

@Tusky @jhamre @feditips

Okay. That's in your app, right?

Wish it was on browser as well. It is really lagging behind.

Do you have a couple of spare developers you can send them? 😉 😁

FediTips has moved!

@MaryPot @Tusky @jhamre

The more I use Tusky, the more I think Mastodon should have come to some arrangement to have Tusky as an official app in exchange for sharing Mastodon's donations, or something like that. (Maybe a simple fork with Mastodon branding to make it easy to notice for new users?)

Tusky already existed long before the official apps were even thought of, and is a lot more mature.