Tusky
A popular app compatible with Mastodon
Over the past days there has been a dramatic movement of users from Twitter to Mastodon, following change of ownership and worries of imminent changes on the platform. We have been covering DINAcon 2022 on the Fediverse, using open source apps.
Tusky is one of the ones being used, reputedly one the most stable/performant options for Android users.
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Install Tusky, pick a server, create a Mastodon account, start tooting! Here are some good starting points.
Volunteer to help moderate the server you are part of. Contribute financially - to the open source projects, as well as to the maintainers of the server you use. Help to translate Tusky into more languages, test for bugs, suggest feature improvements.
Install the local development environment (see Readme). Look through the open issues on GitHub, roll up those sleeves, and help out with the code works.
Tusky
Tusky is a beautiful Android client for Mastodon. Mastodon is an ActivityPub federated social network. That means no single entity controls the whole network, rather, like e-mail, volunteers and organisations operate their own independent servers, users from which can all interact with each other seamlessly.
Features
- Material Design
- Most Mastodon APIs implemented
- Multi-Account support
- Dark, light and black themes with the possibility to auto-switch based on the time of day
- Drafts - compose posts and save them for later
- Choose between different emoji styles
- Optimized for all screen sizes
- Completely open-source - no non-free dependencies like Google services
Testing
The nightly build from master is available on Google Play.
Support
Check out our FAQs, your question may already be answered. If you have any bug reports, feature requests or questions please open an issue or send us a message at Tusky@mastodon.social!
For translating Tusky into your language, visit https://weblate.tusky.app/
Head of development
This app was developed by Vavassor@mastodon.social. The current maintainer is ConnyDuck@chaos.social.
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