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Tootdon App sends a copy of every post to a central corporate server

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Just note that this is nothing new and has been discussed extensively a year ago. They say it is to implement full-text search and toots will be removed after a month: https://mstdn.jp/@tootdon/99759644880024717

If their statement is (still) true, it also means that the original post is at least imprecise insofar as they do not send every post to a central server but only public ones.

Tootdon is a client for Mastodon. Mastodon is a social network that's sort of like Twitter.

In case (like me) you didn't know what this was about.

a social network whose branding is broken isn't a very good social network. i think that everytime i rediscover mastodon and realize that it's still not being used by anyone i consider interesting

Mastodon isn't a social network. It's a client/web app to the Fediverse, distributed social network for which there are many different implementations (Pleroma, Misskey, Pixelfed, PeerTube, et. al.) which communicate via the ActivityPub protocol (over HTTP).

Some alternative clients:

Fedilab, Mast, Tusky. I use Tusky myself.

I switched to Fedilab from Tusky, though both are excellent. Fedilab is a fantastic client, nowadays I use Fedilab with Mastodon and have the latter crosspost to Twitter, since Mastodon is more fun/communal than Twitter.

Twidere lets you use both Mastodon/ActivityPub and Twitter (so you can cross-post tweets/toots).

Sadly it's unmaintained, but since I like it lots more than the alternatives, I'm hoping to fork it and pick up development in my free time.

Shame, it was one of the better apps.

For alternatives I'd recommend Tusky. It's not perfect but does the job and the source is available.

As a tootdon user, and somewhat privacy conscious, what are the details? Specifically, what is the tootdon parent doing wrong with posts?

As a Mastodon client, the UX is one of the best for iOS that I've used. Search works as one would expect search to work.

I'd like to know what the "evil corp" is doing to warrant the action described.

So this is a Mastedon instance?

huh....honestly seems comfy, and feels like how I wish twitter was. I might actually join this thing.

It's a pleroma instance (a different project using the same protocol as Mastodon, so compatible with it and a bunch of other projects)

Bummer. That that was the most usable iOS client I’ve found. Back to Amaroq I guess.

I had downloaded this app a month or so ago in interest of checking out Mastodon since it was the best UX I could find. Glad I never got around to using it. Thanks for the alternative recommendation.

Roma (free) or Toot!/Mast (paid) are great apps.

Why is this a problem? Isn't it the nature of federation that a copy of every post gets sent to... a ton of different servers?

It's a problem because it's not part of the social contract of AP federation.

Why will apple not allow an fdroid on the iphone?

To keep their walled garden, they say "for security" of course.

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