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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.

:android: On Android try Tusky, Fedilab, Megalodon, Tooot

:apple_inc: On iPhone/iPad, try Toot!, Ice Cubes, Ivory, Mona

@feditips Fedilab looks really cool. It's got a great feature set. It's just missing one thing, and I've been waiting for it all year: An update that fixes the known bug where the app only gets new toots when I manually refresh each column individually. That's make or break for me, so I'm just keeping a Chrome tab open instead. I get notifications and everything else works. I'll have to take a look at what else is out there now. It's been a few months.

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@WearsHats

Maybe Fedilab has some fix in the pipeline? Hi @apps, is this a known bug?

@feditips @apps It's a known bug. I've talked to them about it before. They've been telling me since January that a fix is in the works. I switched to the beta update channel, but still no dice.

@WearsHats @apps

Ah okay, sorry about that. Hopefully gets fixed soon.

@feditips @apps I get they don't have corporate backing to pay full-time devs. Once they get around to fixing it, I'm sure it'll be more than worth what I've paid.