Yuito and Tusky

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In my last post for #WeblogPoMo2024 before writing tomorrow about my overall thoughts of the month long challenge, I thought I should today, very briefly, write about Yuito, the application I use to access Mastodon on my Android phone (I rarely use Mastodon on my desktop, something I will go into at the end), how I arrange my tabs and view content, and what I am hoping for in the future.

Tusky

When I joined Mastodon, I initially used the default Android app, but was not too impressed. I then tried out a series of third-party applications, and began using Tusky. What I liked about it was how I could scroll between different aspects of the Fediverse, such as notifications, lists, hashtags, home, direct messages, bookmarks, trending posts and trending hashtags. However, there was a limit as to how many could be used on Tusky, and I was annoyed I had to either merge some sections, or omit them altogether.

I wanted more!!

And although I now see Tusky has been updated to remove this limit, it was there when I was going through all this a couple of years ago, and and such…

Tabs

After some searching around, I came across a fork of Tusky, a Japanese developed app called Yuito. It adds a few different features, but most notably for me, an unlimited amount of tabs so I can slide through the Fediverse sideways to my hearts content, without being limited.

I have my tabs currently set up like so:

Tab Contents
Notifications I don’t have anything filtered here, so I see everything relating to me.
List 1 A list of users who I used to share an instance with and wish to keep in close contact with.
List 2 A list of users I have never shared an instance with, but don’t want to miss their posts.
Local Posts by fellow members of my current instance.
Tending Posts Posts which are popular, picked up by my instance.
Hashtags 1 A feed for computing stuff, hashtags followed: FOSS, IndieWeb, Hugo, SelfHosting, Arch, KDE
Hashtags 2 My feed for vegan things, hashtags followed: Vegan, PlantBased
Hashtags 3 My “pretty” visual feed, hashtags followed: Mastodon, Fungi, LichenSubscribe, BloomScrolling
Hashtags 4 Arts and crafts feed, hashtags followed: Pottery, Quilting
List 3 A list of bots I like to occasionally scroll through.
Home A massive feed of all the posts of all the people I follow.
Direct Messages I don’t need to see my direct messages often, so I place this at the end.

Wishlist

My biggest issue with Yuito is how I cannot theme it, stuck using three non-customisable themes of Dark, Light and Black - I want some Rosé Pine up in here! If Tusky adds such an ability, I may jump back to it now I know they have unlimited tabs!

I also wish there was a way to access Yuito/Tusky on my desktop, because although I did narrow down to three possibilities, the three web interfaces of: Phanpy, Trunks, and Elk, I found them to be lacking in all the features Yuito/Tusky has. I may one day revisit this and give those three another good try, but for now, if I must use Mastodon on my desktop, I just go to my instance and use it from there.