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March 16, 2024, 1:34 a.m. |

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Phanpy


Phanpy is "a minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client" by Chee Aun.


I think that description undersells it. It's beautifully crafted and designed and has a ton of innovative ideas - they way it displays threads and replies, the "Catch-up" beta feature, it's all a really thoughtful and fresh perspective on how Mastodon can work.


I love that all Mastodon servers (including my own dedicated instance) offer a CORS-enabled JSON API which directly supports building these kinds of alternative clients. …

beta client feature fediverse ideas javascript love mastodon perspective think threads web work

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