What are some features you would like to see in a Mastodon app?

Cory@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 38 points –
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Sync for offline use. I'd like to tap a button while in wireless lan to suggest that I will be going on an "offline trip" and to cache all big media versions if possible for all images in my upcoming feed.

Something similar to what sync for reddit had?

Maybe it's already there, but I'd like to browse other instances without creating an account, similarly to the anonymous view of Eternity for Lemmy.

I plan on adding this soon. A couple things I'm gonna play around with are viewing the instance, it's connected domains, users in that domain, any other things you would like to see?

Critical mass of users.

Soon we'll have a new crowd from threads

"Recommended" feed. While I like the chronological and trending feed having a personal feed might make me view posts I might like. Only thing that twitter does good.

Is the mastodon "lists" feature something like what you are talking about?

Just looked up about lists.

The “Lists” feature lets you create mini-timelines that show posts from selected accounts you already follow.

I also want posts from the people I don't follow but might match my preferences.

Hmm, okay. Not too sure mastodon provides an API endpoint for that but I will throw it on the tracker and look into adding it. 🫡🫡🫡

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Not necessarily a mastodon app, but I'd love to see consistent application of markdown. The client I use doesn't seem to support spoilers, and I've seen others that implement headings differently. It would be nice to have all clients implement it the same way.

(vanilla) mastodon does not have markdown, and content from other instances (marked up or not) get transmitted as HTML over the wire (and the mastodon API serves sanitized HTML to apps).

mastodon forks like glitch, and clones of the mastodon API like those on pleroma/akkoma and iceshrimp do serve the markdown source AFAIK, but unless OP's looking to... idk, support MFM (which, on a non-web app would be difficult) I don't really see the point in that.

I'll look into adding markdown support but I'm not sure I've ever seen anything other than bare HTML come through the API. Tbh, the apps are probably just parsing the HTML. Got any examples with markdown in the posts?

Look into opening an account on an Iceshrimp instance like https://fedia.social, or an Akkoma instance like http://pleroma.envs.net. Their APIs are an extension on top of the Mastodon APIs (and both support Markdown and should expose them to apps). Sharkey also has some Mastodon API compatibility but it's quite broken and might require some odd workarounds to get stuff working.

That said, for rich text, parsing the HTML will be more than enough for nearly all cases.

I use catodon.social, which is a MUCH nicer user interface and federates with Mastodon. Very impressed by the design.

Reddit layout. I hate microblogging layout

Have you checked out any of the other Fediverse microblog platforms, like Misskey, Sharkey, etc? I don't really like the layout of Mastodon, but Sharkey's got a much nicer layout (with multiple customization options), and I've really been enjoying it.

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