In the Tusky FAQ, there is a section about certain instances being blocked from Tusky and the user receiving a Rick Roll as a result. The FAQ then says that the user is "free to use another Mastodon client" if they are offended. Well, I'm offended. Not because I believe those banned instances are fantastic, but because it's quite scary that a FOSS developer wants to tell users, "you're allowed to use any Mastodon/Pleroma instance you want except those ones!" What if the devs suddenly decide they don't like fosstodon or some other instance? Then the user is just out of luck, I guess. But nope! The beauty of FOSS software is that even a n00b like me can fool around for ~2 hours and remove the offending code. Maybe one day the Tusky devs will change. Until then, I'll try to keep this updated. Please note that I will only be releasing "DEBUG" APKs and not releases here. Everything else is credit to the original Tusky devs and any bug reports, etc., that don't have to do with the RickRoll "feature" should go to the main project.
Tusky is a beautiful Android client for Mastodon. Mastodon is an ActivityPub federated social network. That means no single entity controls the whole network, rather, like e-mail, volunteers and organisations operate their own independent servers, users from which can all interact with each other seamlessly.
- Material Design
- Most Mastodon APIs implemented
- Multi-Account support
- Dark, light and black themes with the possibility to auto-switch based on the time of day
- Drafts - compose posts and save them for later
- Choose between different emoji styles
- Optimized for all screen sizes
- Completely open-source - no non-free dependencies like Google services
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