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Garry Knight

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I am an amateur photographer, musician, trained psychotherapist, computer programmer, writer, and more. I share photos, bad jokes, and posts on tech, science, medicine, health, the environment, and other similar subjects.

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Garry Knight

1 year ago • •

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Garry Knight
1 year ago — (London) •

The Mammoth app for Mastodon for iOS

Towards the end of November I was trying out the Tooot app, singing its praises, and saying that it was now my main app for Mastodon. However, I've recently discovered and have been beta testing the Mammoth app, written by Shihab Mehboob, the guy who wrote the Aviary app for Twitter. If you know that app, you'll probably already be ahead of me and demanding to know where you can get Mammoth. I'll tell you that later.

Mammoth already has most of the features contained in most other apps and not only has extra ones but some of them are surprising. Such as View Post in AR. No, I can't think of a use for that, either, but it works. And Picture in Picture allows you to use PiP to view a post while doing something else on your iPhone's Homescreen or another app. And there's an iPad version, too.

Here are the features I've found so far:

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]Choose colours, fonts, spacing, media sizes and more for posts[]Relative or absolute timestamps[]Scheduled posts[]Automatic post threading[]Post transla... show more

Here are the features I've found so far:

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]Choose colours, fonts, spacing, media sizes and more for posts[]Relative or absolute timestamps[]Scheduled posts[]Automatic post threading[]Post translation, biography translation[]Pull to refresh keeps your place in the timeline[]Unread count on all timelines[]Tabs at bottom: Home, Activity (notifications), Messages, Explore, Profile[]Dropdown at top of Home tab: Refresh, Home, Community, Everything, then your Lists[]Search icon at top left, new post icon at top right[]Explore tab has Trending Posts, Follow Suggestions, Profile Directory (for your server), Browse Other Communities, Lists, and Hashtags[]Browse Other Communities is a searchable list of hundreds of Mastodon instances showing name, description, number of people, and language[]Dropdown at top of the list: Popular, Academia, Activism, Anime, Art, Books, Food, Games, Humor, Journalism, LGBT, Music, Sports, Tech[]Searchable Profile shows Following, Followers, number of posts, when last posted[]Profile not editable at this point but soon will be[]Dropdown at top right of Profile: Recent Media, Likes, Bookmarks, Filters, Explore, Muted, Blocked, Scheduled Posts, Endorsed Users, Translate Bio, Edit Profile, Share Profile[]Post Edit box has icons for media, camera, poll, CW, DM[]A … menu at the bottom right of the edit box has: Collaborate via SharePlay, Undo Post, Schedule Post, Translate Post, Add Custom Emoji, Add ASCII Faces, Add Drawing, Add GIF (from Giphy), Add Image from Files[]A … menu at the bottom of all posts in a timeline: Bookmark, Translate Posts, View in Browser, Picture in Picture, View in AR, Share Post[]Share Post options: Share Link, Share Text, Share as image, Copy Link, Copy Text[]A … menu at the top of any open post: To Top of Thread, Favourite, To Bottom of Thread, Show All Sensitive Content, Translate Post, Emotion Analysis, View Profile, View in Browser, Picture in Picture, View in AR[]The … menu in someone's profile: Mention, Message, Recent Media, Manage Lists, Translate Bio, Endorse User, Private User Note, Danger Zone, Share ProfileThe Danger Zone submenu: Mute @user, Block @user, Report @user

Most of this is working right now, though a couple of fairly major features are still in the works. For example, you can't edit your Profile or change your avatar image or banner. You'll need to use another app or the web interface for that. I bet I've missed a few things out, though. The programmer seems to be working flat out to implement the missing stuff.

So, how can you get the beta?

Go here:

Read the important bits of the page, install the TestFlight app, then install Mammoth. Enjoy! But do submit feedback.

Oh, and as some of you know, mammoths aren't at all the same thing as mastodons. Different family. Elephantidae. But I bet the programmer knows this already.

#Mastodon #Mammoth #iOS

#Mastodon social media mastdon

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dieter_wilhelm

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Ah ok. Well my smartphone runs on android (Huawei with Google Play)

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Garry Knight

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What on earth happened to my list?! All I did was add a couple of hashtags!

Garry Knight

1 year ago •

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1 year ago — (London) •

A Lady Sipping Tea

Sitting in a coffee bar.

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Close up of a woman's face, with a straw in her mouth and the cup below.

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1 year ago •

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Come in and Sit Down

A poster outside the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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A black and white photo in which two women are pssing a large poster on a wall, which shows a typical British living room with six portrait photos on the wall, all of which presumably are within the Gallery

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Garry Knight

1 year ago •

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The Steamy Side of Life

At a steamy market stall in Berwick Street Market, London.

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People standing by a street food stall which is belching out steam

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Garry Knight

1 year ago •

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Mon Plaisir at Christmas

A 'snow painting' in the window of Mon Plaisir, a French restaurant in London's Monmouth Street.

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A cottage with a snow-covered roof and leaded light windows with a wreath on a porch door and smoke coming out of a tall brick chimney. A Christmas tree stands in front of the house

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Tony

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Really great 😊

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Garry Knight

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Thanks, Tony. 😊

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1 year ago •

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Brandy Melville

A fashion shop in Neal Street, Covent Garden, London.

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A shop window full of women's clothing

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Garry Knight

1 year ago •

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1 year ago — (London) •

Getting the Brush Off

"Just go away with your camera!"

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A shop window mannequin raises her hand to shoo me way

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Passing Pattern

A double-exposure taken with the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone 13 Pro Max.

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A double exposure of a couple passing a patterned wall

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1 year ago •

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Sleeping pigeon

In the northeast portico of Covent Garden Market.

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A pigeon is sleeping directly below where I am standing

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Damien Tron

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Hungry and frozen?

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Garry Knight

in reply to Damien Tron • 1 year ago •

Could be. Generally, we're not allowed to feed them in many places in central London. I don't know if that's the case in Covent Garden Market, but perhaps most other people also don't know.