Mammoth: for Mastodon

… but the Notion link to “why did we enable telemetry” asks me to login, which i won’t do. Mammoth is hit/miss. Back in its beta times, when expectations were low, the app felt quite compelling. Now a little less so, and small inconveniences like having to tap N times on a video to pause or stop, get old rather quickly. The posts-shortening algorithm feels strange (adding multiple trimmed paras with ellipses). Quitting the app also sometimes loses the “last read” marker. And so on. Good, overall.

It’s a fast Mastodon client, and does a great job and filling out the experience if you’re on a smaller instance. Highly recommended

App works wonderfully. I was looking for an alternative to Ivory and this fits the bill. My only complaint is that scrolling the timeline, even at a reasonable speedy is janky and stutters a lot. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future update.

Great app. I would love to be able to mute certain hashtags - I can’t figure out how to do it in the app. Also, when I refresh my “Following” timeline I don’t want to lose my reading place and go to the newest post, I want to be able to keep scrolling up from past to present in chronological order.

Just started with it but I love it already.

Can’t display images in landscape view. Even with all the other great features this maybe annoying enough to stop using. Please fix !

Mammoth is disappointing because it’s been so close to being the most pleasant Mastodon experience, but keeps letting itself down. I was already using Mammoth as my main client during TestFlight, but it has sadly gotten increasingly unstable, buggy and frustrating to use over time since the official release. Even as of the most recent update, feeds randomly fail to load anything at all, posts sometimes don’t send for no apparent reason (even when the interface says they have), some posts send but without the attached media - again for no apparent reason and without any indication, the app randomly crashes (which loses your place in the feed) when you do things as simple as click on the New Post button (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, without any clear reason), feeds don’t refresh properly resulting in missing posts, the sound effects have randomly disappeared from seemingly every action but refreshing. And to make matters worse, as well as consistently getting buggier and more unstable, the App keeps losing its wonderful customisation features to make way for unappealing new additions like “For You,” and none of these changes in options and interface get explained and there is no warning before it happens.

What is this? Froze on first open then crashed 3 times in the first 5 minutes of use. This kind of experience is why people think Mastodon is janky.

Mastodon itself is relatively new, and Mammoth is a new app for this “federated” social network. Mammoth is an iOS client for Mastodon, and worth recommending because it’s polished and free. It’s probably the most polished free app out there right now, and actually improves upon Ivory (perhaps the most polished non-free Mastodon app) in a few areas. The team behind Mammoth want to build a free+premium model for Mammoth, but given that their team included people who worked for Mozilla (makers of Firefox), it seems logical that a usable “free” app will always be on the table. If you use Mastodon, or just curious, give Mammoth a try!

I love this app it’s by far and away the best mastadon app that I’ve tried . It’s free too 👍