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Phanpy vs Mastodon Comments
- Phanpy is Free and Open Source
- Phanpy is a Mastodon Client
Mastodon AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Mastodon Clients
The best Mastodon Client alternative to Mastodon is Phanpy, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Mastodon and eight of them are Mastodon Clients so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mastodon Client alternatives to Mastodon are Elk.zone, Brutaldon, Enafore and Takesama.
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Elk.zone vs Mastodon Comments
ManoThis only offers a web page alternative to mastodon, the server needs to have mastodon or something else running on the backend
- Elk.zone is Free and Open Source
- Elk.zone is a Mastodon Client
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
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Mastodon client, offering a CLI as well as a TUI with a usage similar to rainbowstream for Twitter. It is intended to be used at 80 characters width maximum, but ideally inside tmux as a sidebar-style program.
Zocial is a fork of Enafore, itself born from the legendary Pinafore. Where Enafore focuses on broad compatibility, Zocial goes further — polishing rough edges, adding quality-of-life features, and tuning the experience for servers running GoToSocial, Akkoma, glitch-soc...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Docker
- YunoHost
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An open source social media tool that aggregates posts from the top tier open source social media networks: Hashiverse, nostr, Mastodon, and Bluesky.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Online
Sweden
EU
Poland
Germany
Phanpy is an alternative to the Mastodon app, not to the network or server software. It runs well on both desktop and mobile, and has some really helpful features like a catch-up mode and clustering boosts together to emphasize what people are actually posting themselves.