You don't need to use the official Mastodon apps, they're not the best way to use Mastodon. The official apps only arrived last year, and they were intended as "Fisher Price My First Mastodon" things with a restricted set of features.
Third party apps have been around longer than official ones, and include way more features. You can sign in with the same account on all apps.
On Android try Tusky, Fedilab, Megalodon, Tooot
On iPhone/iPad, try Toot!, Ice Cubes, Ivory, Mona
@feditips i'm kind of new to this, are there web/chromeOS/desktop clients?
The desktop website interface is really good, and has two different modes.
By default it has a single-column mode, but you can switch it to a Tweetdeck-style multicolumn mode too.
More info on switching it to advanced at https://fedi.tips/how-to-activate-mastodons-tweetdeck-style-advanced-web-interface/
@feditips Thanks a lot! That what i was looking for! Switching to multicolumn is perfect. :)
@feditips @alcryptoy see also phanpy.social as a web app. The main mastodon app is very leaky and runs out of memory and gets slow if you leave it open. Elk and phanpy are bother better at that,and have smoother ui.
@KevinMarks Ah thanks, i'll keep an eye on it!
@alcryptoy @KevinMarks I use Elk and it is very Twitter-like. For an alpha it is incredibly functional. I had not heard of Phanpy but I will check it out!
@feditips @alcryptoy the tweet deck column format was honestly the initial draw for me. I had my Twitter highly curated and got around the Algo by having those highly curated columns