I've been at my in-laws for the holidays a week now. I've hardly been on Friendica, partially because the web interface has been practically impossible to use. They live in a very rural area and most days their download speed maxes out at 0.5 MB/s many attempts don't work on web. Particularly things that aren't natively supported on #AndStatus like SHARE POST and CONTACT SEARCH that I try to use on web instead.
I still mostly use #Mustard (abandoned client, but it was still available in F-Droid when I installed it; no idea whether it is still available there). I also use #AndStatus, and sometimes I just use a mobile browser ( #Firefox / #IceCatMobile ).
I keep saying I'm going to write a new GS client, but so far, I have not even started.
I haven't seen anything else for iOS that supports GS, but it might be worth going to the big blue discount store (aka #Walmart ) and buying their $80 #Android device, so you can use #AndStatus instead. AndStatus is not known for being fast, but it can run circles around Shoyu, even running backwards, with its eyes closed and its ankles bound.
#Mustard is old and unmaintained, but it works with GS #OAuth and I have it on my phone. For a few years now, posting has not worked (error message said “unauthorized”), so I’ve used #AndStatus to post (despite its own issues). I don’t know if the server migration or the version bump fixed things, but I’m glad that I can now use Mustard for posting again.
♲ @andstatus@loadaverage.org: On adding Group / List support to #AndStatus
Oh, I see that #GNUSocial development is going on: notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social #ActivityPub Server-to-Server support is being added (and I saw a report that it was successfully tested some days ago...)
Moreover, looking into the source code I found the first-hand info about the system's API . And although the code, related to Groups support, didn't change for the last six years 😀 notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/s… , it works and I could actually retrieve the group's timeline at loadaverage.org
The unusual "!groupname" syntax to address a group is not a big problem...
Moreover, looking into the source code I found the first-hand info about the system's API . And although the code, related to Groups support, didn't change for the last six years :-) https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/src/nightly/actions/apitimelinegroup.php , it works and I could actually retrieve the group's timeline at loadaverage.org
The unusual "!groupname" syntax to address a group is not a big problem...
@rmbl Oh, I see that I was confused a bit about terminology. The "Group" notion in #ActivityPub is about a group of Actors (people etc.), but we are talking here about a named "Collection" of notes/activities. But actually GNU Social calls such collections "Groups" :-) I'm creating descriptions and comparisons of Groups/Lists notions in different types of social networks, supported by #AndStatus, here: https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/248#issuecomment-219826572
No, I don't use IRC. That way of communication is in another Universe for me :-)
@rmbl Sometimes I need the same, and I also feel that it is inconvenient to keep "unread" all notifications in order not to forget one of them. Recently I started implementation of Group/Lists support in #AndStatus. And I see that creation of some personal "ToDo" group and adding any note/ activity to that group could help in such cases. Unfortunately AFAIK only #ActivityPub supports such actions, meaning that such custom groups of notes could be automatically synced between User's devices or even shared... Moreover, each "Social network" in #AndStatus logically should have its own group... So it seems that I will start from some device-local groups (like tags...) that can be easily viewed... @fedilab
@moonman There are two dimentions in the support of different protocols of Social networks, which I'm facing during development : 1. Implementation of different API calls and parsing responses of every API of every supported protocol. I cope with this problem simply by implementing only some of available APIs (features)... 2. Trying to adapt internal data/actions model so that it could fit into conceptual differencies of different systems. This is a lot more time consuming and difficult to do right. In #AndStatus we started ten years ago with Twitter-like model. For the last two years I'm gradually converting it into #ActivityPub based model...
@roka As I remember, #AndStatus gets the limit from Mastodon's configuration... Please try to go to AndStatus Settings -> Accounts -> Manage Accounts -> Select your account and then Reverify credentials. Do you see updated toot length limit?
@lnxw48a1 did not delete it. I dropped a stylus and AndStatus deleted the post before I could pick the stylus up. Note that the proximate cause was dropping the stylus. #AndStatus just responded faster than expected to the stylus’s landing point.
@lnxw48a1 Do you mean the wrong domain name for the "kaniini" user? This is a problem of figuring out a unique Actor by his name only (which is not unique). Only recently, in #AndStatus v.49, I started to extract "mentions" from Mastodon toots. GNU Social doesn't have even this to allow uniquely identify an Actor. Anyway, I'm working on improving this. BTW you can try Settings-> Troubleshooting -> Check and fix data to fix at least some problems... Or better reinstall the app if you don't need cached data and install v.49+