Tusky for Mastodon

Tusky Team

About this app

Tusky is a lightweight client for Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/), a free and open-source social network server. It supports all Mastodon features, like photos, videos, lists, custom emojis and is designed according to material guidelines.
You can choose between a dark and a light theme in Tusky. It has notifications and a drafts feature.
Tusky is free and open source software licensed under the GPL-3.0. The source code is available at https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky

Ratings and reviews

Image scaling is very poor in the main timeline, often leaving blobby messes. No error messages when my instance is down. I wish it had better search for people I follow and my followers with (weirdly, I can type a user handle into a new post and sometimes find people that way). There isn't a way to require alt text before posting images, so you'll likely get nagged by other users to add that. The app is also very poor about consolidating notifications, cumbersome with popular posts.

A couple little bugs need to be worked out. The delayed timer for posting doesn't work. It's a wonderful feature, but I've tried it three times and it has failed to work. Also, in the followers column, it doesn't tell you if you're following them back like how it does on the website. Another thing, when I post a video from YouTube, the app takes you to YouTube instead of playing the video inside the app. I like the website better for this. Otherwise, it seems okay.

While I am still liking this app better then Fedilab and the interface seems far more polished and there's less waiting for stuff to happen I have also now run into the app losing my timeline location at times and it is quite annoying. Right now it's only a 1 star deduction but if it happens more frequently it likely will mean leaving the app for me.

What’s new

Tusky v31.1
- Reverted the new media picker introduced in v31.0, as it has less features.
- Fixes an issue where Tusky would crash when trying to set up UnifiedPush with a server that has no vapid key configured.