Oh no... I've started using #Phanpy and I think I kinda like it
WHY CAN'T I JUST DECIDE ON AN APP AND KEEP USING IT!?
WHY CAN'T I JUST DECIDE ON AN APP AND KEEP USING IT!?
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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.12 👩🚀
"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)"
mentioning: @alttexthalloffame @Gargron @FediTips @ivory @IceCubesApp @Tusky @Simx72 @phanpy @jon @mathi_gwithyas @rysiek
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #accessibility #AltText #CW #ContentWarnings #Phanpy #Ivory #Tusky #Mastodon #IceCubes
Finally broke looking at the new #Mastodon interface and decided to try #Phanpy, but it's even more bloated.
Fired up my old #Sengi desktop client but it looks like the code is no longer maintained and the version I have doesn't work any more.
Didn't there used to be other popular web interfaces you could use to connect to your Mastodon account (on any instance)?
I just noticed that when there is a large time gap between a post and a reply, #Phanpy adds notice to be read as the French narrator from SpongeBob
Two Fediverse clients I like are Elk and Phanpy, but both had the same issue: the inability to filter "replies" and "boosts" from the timeline. For me this is essential. I can't keep up with my timeline, and if I also see replies to posts unrelated to what I follow, it just becomes chaos. So I tried to implement these filters and opened a PR.
The Elk developers have already merged it into the main branch, so we should soon see the two hide options appear in Elk. Hopefully the same will happen in Phanpy as well, because this greatly improves the experience on two excellent Fediverse tools, which are also compatible with snac.
https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/pull/3482
Since Wrapstodon isn't a feature easily enabled and available for every instance, I am super happy about @phanpy's neat 'Year in Posts' overview. So cool to look at! 🤓
There's also an option to show only posts with media, and you can click on every month individually to look at the posts more specifically. Excellent! 🌟
I didn't know #Phanpy has an algo... I mean a special feed to find stuff you may have missed while not online. It's called Catch-up.
https://phanpy.social/#/catchup
Nice!
![Catch-up (BETA): downloads several hours worth of your home feed and then provides multiple ways to sort, group and filter them.
Choose what kind of posts to show:
All / Original / Replies / Boosts / Followed tags
Sort them by (each can be reversed):
Date / Replies / Likes / Boosts / Density [= post length?]
Group them by:
None / Authors
On the top the page also displays various statistics, such as number of posts per followed account. (I have censored most names and profile pictures.)](/proxy/post_attachment/527207/4997d8da48.png "Catch-up (BETA): downloads several hours worth of your home feed and then provides multiple ways to sort, group and filter them.
Choose what kind of posts to show:
All / Original / Replies / Boosts / Followed tags
Sort them by (each can be reversed):
Date / Replies / Likes / Boosts / Density [= post length?]
Group them by:
None / Authors
On the top the page also displays various statistics, such as number of posts per followed account. (I have censored most names and profile pictures.)")
Really nice touch for alt text on Phanpy. As your mouse hovers over an image, the corresponding alt text is highlighted below.
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#Phanpy #phanpysocialdev https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun Hello, can you tell me please how i can exclude all boosted toots/posts from my Home/Follows timeline? The Mastodon UI has a simple, single, toggle for this, but so far i've not deduced how to do it globally with the Phanpy UI [until a better option arises, i need to tediously manually suppress boosts individual by individual]?
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Phanpy and GoToSocial is a killer combination.
GoToSocial has some great privacy controls, but has no front end by default. https://gotosocial.org
Phanpy, the alternative Mastodon web client, looks really sleek. https://phanpy.social
And it seems pretty easy to run them side by side.
I think Phanpy probably has the best UX/UI when it comes to image posting, it's simple, everything is at your fingertips without having to click fifteen times everywhere.
Ce petit bout d'interface est vraiment génial sur Phanpy. 
En gros, il apparaît sur tous les pouets où l'auteur ou l'autrice a répondu directement à son propre pouet, ou est la réponse à un de ses propres pouets, créant de facto un thread/fil.
Comme ça, on comprend tout de suite que soit il faut « ouvrir » le pouet pour voir la suite, soit qu'on peut comprendre le contexte avec ce qui a été publié avant.
J'aimerais vraiment voir apparaitre ça sur toutes les interfaces
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